I just assume you're planning to do this on Linux.
Yes apologies, linux, probably reasonably modern 2.6 kernel
Since there is no other fileserver than a 'namei' on Linux, you can use
it on any device (the LVM is usually completely transparent) and with
any filesystem you think it suits best.
Excellent, that makes things so much easier
For the rest of the questions, I don't know how you think you can
'network' RAIDs.
I was referring to using something like ENBD to create a RAID array
across a network
If you want to use available storage from all of your fileservers,
that's what AFS will help you do.
You'll have one namespace and from a users perspective you won't have
to care about where the storage actually is located.
Actually that's what a distributed and even a network file system is
all about.
Indeed, what i was referring to is having 4 servers and maintaining some
form of redundancy, so that the AFS volume (namespace?) could survive a
single server failure, whilst having more than the 180 gig currently
free on each machine. I kinda assumed it was impossible
If you think of placing the network some layers lower, like in the
block device, etc., AFS can't help.
Yeah i figured as much, i was just wondering if AFS contained any way of
doing the above.
Regards,
Paul
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