From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 06:22:49 +0800
To: rdl@mit.edu
Subject: Ryan's eternity DDS (Re: technical issues of the list)
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Ryan Lackey <rdl@mit.edu> writes:
> I'm pretty sure all 5 years fit on one cd-rom -- I've been using 4
> years as an eternity dds dataset, along with some other stuff, and I
> think it is less than 500mb, although one of the problems with my
> current eternity file system under linux is that there is no way of
> telling how big a directory is (yay VFS kludges).

Sounds like you are building a file system interface to a distributed
data store, cool.  Want to give us a brief description of what it does?
I know I'd be interested, I'm sure others would too.

Adam