I've been stalled with ErlFS for a while now, but my interest has been flared up due to someone cloning my SVN repo into GitHub, where it ended up on the front page for interesting projects.

So, I had actually been scheming a bit and was thinking about using a distributed hash table instead of a mesh network, due to the ability to scale massively. This is one of the goals of ErlFS, so it seemed natural.

I'm dead set on it now and I've started a project called chordial, which is my open source _interpretation_ of MIT's chord algorithm. Once it is finished, it should greatly simplify ErlFS and I will likely start from scratch.

You can find chordial at http://github.com/dawsdesign/chordial/.

I can currently add multiple nodes to the ring, but I am having some issues with the finger function on the nodes. It will just take some time to get sorted out, but I am feeling great about this project and it is going quite well.