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From: chet@mandrill.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: transparent archiving
Message-ID: <2483@mandrill.CWRU.Edu>
Date: 20 May 88 18:57:40 GMT
References: <5482@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <11590@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: chet@mandrill.UUCP (Chet Ramey)
Organization: CWRU Dept of Computer Engineering and Science, Cleveland, OH
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In article <11590@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:

[discussion of a scheme to store files on tape until accessed]

>The obvious way to do this is with portals.  Too bad they never got
>written.  You can try U of Wisconsin's `watchdogs' (see winter 1988
>Usenix proceedings), which are more or less the same idea.

Those are the University of Washington's `watchdogs'.  

The authors are Brian Bershad and C. Brian Pinkerton, both of the 
U. of Washington Computer Science Department.  (The article is 
pretty interesting, by the way; I like the concept.)

Their addresses are given as {brian,bp}@june.cs.washington.edu; I 
suppose requests for info should be directed there.

Chet Ramey

(Boy, it's not often that one catches Chris in error, even one this 
minor :-))



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