I guess FreeLoader answers your call.
Freeloader is a distributed storage system designed to harness the unused storage space of LAN-connected commodity desktops. A dedicated space manager maintains metadata such as node status, chunk distribution, and files attributes.
The FreeLoader project is under active development. And can be found through the following link
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~samera/projects/freeloader/
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I guess FreeLoader answers your call. Freeloader is a distributed storage system designed to harness the unused storage space of LAN-connected commodity desktops. A dedicated space manager maintains metadata such as node status, chunk distribution, and files attributes. The FreeLoader project is under active development. And can be found through the following link http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~samera/projects/freeloader/