rohitj - 7:55 pm on May 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

I was under the impression the Big daddy was done to save bandwidth--not disk space. As for a machine crisis, it isn't hard to purchase datacenters--there are quite a few for sale at basement prices from companies going under.

I bet this problem could be solved by more efficient compression? In any case, I did read somewhere that the Google file system stores 7 copies of any one document for backup and load-balancing sake. Mabe they can reduce that to 4 or 5 as a very temporary solution...