The software works to some degree. You should not use this software here for real productive use.

FTP cluster

ftpcluster is a prototype FTP cluster project written for gawk version 3.1.0 or above using a C library extension and an additional program for networking.

Documentation

• Introduction - What is an FTP cluster?
  
• How does the cluster work? - Theory of operation
  
• Files, formats and FTP - Running the cluster
  
• Access control - Authentication and permissions
  
• Clients and compatibility - Connecting users
  

Installation and usage

• Ready for a test drive? - How to install
  
• Behind the scenes - The cluster queues
  
• Queue processing
  
• The queue command
  
• Where are my files? - list your cluster's content
  
• List your nodes - listserver
  
• File availability - Replication
  
• Check and repair - syscheck and sysrepair
  
• Site maintainance - The site command
  
• It's not working - Debugging
  

Read this too

• Working with FXP - What is FXP?, and how is it configured?
• Current status - What is working, what not?
  
• What's next? - The todo list and version history