Someone forwarded this link to me about an ambitious well laid out distributed storage project . http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/eternity/node4.html What makes this On Topic for the list is that Open Source transparency as in Linux is essential for being able to TRUST such a project . Now for example if every LUG were a quorum of admins in a thing of this type and our servers hosted a mirror ? Oren www.campdownunder.com