At 15:59 17/05/2002, Rob B wrote: >At 15:36 17/05/2002, Gareth Walters sent this up the stick: >>G'day all, >> >>I happen to have a small cluster of a few machines that are used for >>testing, they boot from a floppy and mount root via NFS. >> >>I am now allowed to use their hard disks, I was wondering if there is a way >>I can turn the disks into some kind >>of distributed network attached storage so users can access it as one large >>temporary disk (don't care if its slow). >> >>I have had a bit of a search and a look around on the 'net but don't see >>anyway of doing this, yet. >> >>Does anyone have any ideas how I might go about it? > >I think OpenAFS could do this, but don't quote me :) > >Cheers, >Rob
It can to a degree. As far as I know, you can't put a single volume on more than one server (you can replicate it, but that's not the same..). Also, my experience with OpenAFS is that the clients are all quite buggy. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
