What is inQ anyway?
• The short answer is, “inQ is a program that people use to talk to SRB.” Thus, to get an idea of what inQ can do you for you, you first have to know what SRB can do for you. Okay, what is SRB then? • SRB is software [1] that sits on top of different storage devices, taking different pieces of storage hardware and treating them as a single large storage system or data grid. SRB presents you with a directory tree just as you would find on a regular UNIX system or standard personal computer; this allows you to group data logically, as you would on a normal computer system. Underneath the “virtual file system” however, lies any number of different physical storage devices including hard disks found your PC or on a server, tape silos, or databases to name a few. Why is that a good thing? • Since SRB sits on top of other storage devices, files in any given directory in SRB may actually be stored in different devices throughout the country or the world! This allows you to organize data not o
