--- On 30 Jun 2000 Syed Khader Vali wrote:
>
> Hi *,
> I have a problem at hand. We have around 40 machines in the lab
> comprising of around 9 different operations systems ( which include
> Linux, NT , OS/2 and other Commercial Unices ). Now there is so much
> wastage of space on all these machines, that we have decided to go
for
> collating all this space and mapping it onto a single machine. Now
all
> this has to be done in such a way that there is no performance loss
in
> the network.
> Coda unfortunately is only available on Linux and BSD's and not so
> stable from what I understood.
> Samba maybe a solution, but how do we collate all that into a single
> space and also there might be network performance issues.
> Then another options is DFS which seems to be present on most unices,
> but I dunno about how good it is on Linux and other *BSD's.
> I wanted to know if anybody is doing similar stuff !
>
> Because again Linux has to handle all this stuff. Would be glad if
> anyone can help !!
> Thanks
> Regards
> Carter
Khader,
Forgive me for pointing out the obvious. :)
I think your best strategy would be to be less ambitious. Why not try
to collate space to, say, two or three machines. All the NTs one,
Unices on another, etc. That way you could optimise the method that is
native to each system for performance and stability.
IMHO, that'd be your best compromise solution.
Biju
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