On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:08:42PM +0530, 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.
Practical answer: disk is cheap. Just get a new disk.
A more theoretical answer: centralize your disk array. Have it on one machine
and have everybody else mount it. You'll lose some performance and increase
network traffic. But you can't have it both ways.
-Arun
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