not quite sure who the original poster was, but...
2009/8/3 <lists@truthisfreedom.org.uk>Hi all, I'm working on something at the moment where I will require file replication across geographically-diverse networks. Initially this will probably be multiple sites within the UK, however it is hoped that it will expand to global datacentres.
Something that sure looks interesting is:Cleversafe.org - a dispersed storage model that looks pretty powerful, and is available under GPL.
You might also nose around planet-lab.org - there are an awful lot of people working on content distribution networks, file replication, dispersed storage and the like - and some of the software is pretty mature.
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