On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:48:13PM +0530, Syed Khader Vali wrote:
> 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.
That would be level 0 or level 3:
http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/R/RAID.html
But typically, RAID is done at a device level and on a single machine.
What you're trying to do is distributed across multiple OSes, filesystems
etc. Perhaps it's doable, but it's going to be expensive and the results
may be less than pleasing. Sounds like writing a winmodem driver :)
-Arun
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