Dispersed storage solutions?

[Andy Young]

I recently came across a number of really interesting research papers about
using erasure coding techniques to store data redundantly across a number
of machines. This was pretty exciting for me because I have been looking
for this kind of technology for a while. Simply replicating our data is way
too expensive for us. I found a number of commercial products that provide
this type of solution but they are too expensive for our business model. So
... has anyone used this kind of technology with FreeBSD before? If there
isn't an existing project out there, is there enough interest to start one?

This paper gives a solid overview of the technology
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~dimakis/RC_Journal.pdf

Andy