Often I am blind to the smallest trivia that ends up being very useful...

In a recent humanitarian discussion ranged over how one should handle a large set of files that needed to be shared as a searchable library. Groove is getting better (eg Groove File Sharing) but the bottom line is it not very good at this - yet. It remains true that moving a libary around a distributed network presents a large challenge. It can consume consdierable bandwidth and disk space, proportional to the number of users times the size of the library. Groove is best with deltas, not large downloads.

Ok so the question is how can the PopG architecture help here? The answer is very simple. Assuming that ALL users have accounts on PopG then one simply makes a file library available on the normal disk and enable access through Groove. Because the storage is not actually in Groove there is no disk overhead - for anyone. A library of size 10gigs would occupy that amount of diskspace just once, not once for each member.

I guess this shows I am human after all.

posted by Andy Swarbrick/PopG at 11:19