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

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