[Olpc-open] RE: [mass storage] Is it possible to substitute flash?

[Xan]

En/na Ivan Krstić ha escrit:
> Xan wrote:
>> Why not distributed backups?: laptops could interconnect with wifi
>> (without a server needed). So, one laptop could "help" another and store
>> a partial chunk of a backup (the laptop that "help" could limite the
>> borrowed space in % or MB). 
> 
> Distributed backups in our case are very inefficient storage-wise as you
> need to store multiple replicas, expensive computationally as you need
> to encrypt to ensure privacy, and altogether way too complex to warrant
> serious consideration.

Yes?
I believed that it wasn't so
Well, it was only an idea.

Thanks for listen that

Xan

> 
> There are other interesting things you can do with distributed
> information lookups on the mesh, and I'm evaluating those, but backups
> are not on the list.
>