On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:17:41 +0400
Evgeniy Polyakov [off-list ref] wrote:

I'm pleased to announce sixth release of the distributed storage
subsystem, which allows to form a storage on top of remote and local
nodes, which in turn can be exported to another storage as a node to
form tree-like storages.

I went back and re-read last month's discussion and I'm not seeing any
reason why we shouldn't start thinking about merging this.

How close is it to that stage?  A peek at your development blog indicates
that things are still changing at a moderate rate?