outsider wrote: > Thanks for the replies guys. > I don't think openAFS is what I'm looking for. > Well, maybe I should express what I am looking for, in hopes someone can > suggest an alternative. > > - join multiple pre-formated (with the FS of my choosing) partitions on the > same machine (on different sized drives) into one large accessible space. > - If one drive dies, only the data on that drive is lost. All other data > remains. > - If I pull one drive/parttion out, it should be accessible like a regular > partition on another system. (this means that the original FS is not > modified, and remains accessible when the drive is removed) > > I know there's JBOD. What I 'm looking for is kinda like that, but not > exactly. > > Prefer if this was linux based, but will take any OS. > You want one large blob of space that spans multiple discrete chunks but uses a native fs on-disk. I think those requirements are almost mutually exclusive. your first requirement can be met with something like a drobo http://www.drobo.com/ I'm not sure what meets the second requirement.
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