I would install OpenAFS on all the windows boxes, then use one of many
methods to hide those processes.
Then you could have each drive mounted/hosting different logical volumes.
And they would all be available from any OS with a afs client, which
almost all are supported.
-Ober
Richard Chesler: [Reading a piece of paper] The first rule of Fight Club is you
don't talk about Fight Club?
Narrator: [Voice-over] I'm half asleep again; I must've left the original in
the copy machine.
Richard Chesler: The second rule of Fight Club - is this yours?
Narrator: Huh?
Richard Chesler: Pretend you're me, make a managerial decision: you find this,
what would you do?
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, A Rossi wrote:
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:53:14 -0800
From: A Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: network distributed storage with windows?
Hi,
I've been hired by a client to perform a number of network services for him,
most of which are completely unrelated to my topic.
Now, onto my topic:
He asked me if I could partition all of his workstation computers (running
windows XP Professional SP2) with a windows partition, and a hidden partition
which occupies most of the disk, that is accessible over the network to
OpenBSD (actually he asked for FreeBSD, but I will change his mind...) to
back up his server. He doesn't want his employees to know about it or to be
able to interact with this "hidden partition" in any way. I told him that it
is not possible, because windows controls the hardware (being the OS on the
system) and the only way it would work was if he had *BSD on the system. But,
because he is paying me, I thought I should give him the benefit of the
doubt, and ask the pros in this area.
So, is it possible for OpenBSD to access a bunch of "hidden" (I put it into
quotes because it could be any non-windows compatible partition, because it
won't show it then) partitions on networked workgroup computers and treat
them like one big disk for backup?
My apologies for such a long post. I am new to OpenBSD, but I like what I
see.
Thanks,
A Rossi