>>>>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 05:52:52 -0700 (PDT), Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>said:
Biju> Forgive me for pointing out the obvious. :)
Hey, that's cheating !! you point out the obvious and you want me to
forgive you also ? :-)
Biju> I think your best strategy would be to be less
Biju> ambitious. Why not try to collate space to, say, two or
Biju> three machines. All the NTs one, Unices on another,
Biju> etc. That way you could optimise the method that is native
Biju> to each system for performance and stability.
Biju, the thing is as of now I have lesser machines i.e.around 40
machines and in another month or so this is gonna expand to aroung 120
machines. So, the thing is if I don't do that now, I endup trying to be much
more ambitious than I am now ;-) So as machines keep coming, I can
just go on adding machines to the network and set them up. As of now
we are using NIS for all the Unices and M$Networking for windows
machines. That actually does what you suggested I presume. Wrong ?
Just came up with a solution of using AFS on all the machines and then
using software raid to collate all that. Now which level raid do I use
? And since it is AFS we do not have any licensing issues. :-) and we
have a opensource afs client for Linux. :-))))
So hop onto any kernel version and we will not endup in problems of
kernel incompatibilty.
Thanks Biju.
Regards
Carter
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