the mercury file system
Josh
josh@mercuryfs.net
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:09:55 -0700
Bet me $100? And read the design.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bram Cohen [mailto:bram@gawth.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:01 PM
To: Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems
Cc: Charles (E-mail); Steven Torres (E-mail); Lana Akamine (E-mail)
Subject: RE: the mercury file system
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Josh wrote:
> Yes, but you gotta see the engineering details. This really is a very
basic
> design, as far as global file systems go. I actually won a bet by keeping
it
> within a 2 inch binder (its still incomplete).
Any design which requires a 2" binder to hold it is completely out of
control.
> I have studied the political challenges more than the engineering
> challenges, to be honest. I figured that even if I get the design to
> work, I would never be allowed to distribute it. The only way MFS will
> be successful is if the world trusts it, so it has to have strong
> encryption.
I predict you'll never get to the point of having such problems, for
purely technical reasons.
-Bram Cohen
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
-- John Maynard Keynes
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