On 22 March 2010 19:46, Ninad Pundalik <[email protected]<[email protected]> > wrote:
> How tough would it be to implement this on top of sshfs? Mount all > the partitions other than root for 'clients' onto a common location on > a 'server', and then all the clients can mount that mountpoint and > access the entire hierarchy? I have no idea if any problems of > recursive nature will happen, but I guess you can worry about it > later, as the current set of users is primarily Windows based and we > don't expect them to play around with stuff. I've tried doing cyclic > mounts between 2 systems, but I was sane enough to not experiment by > remounting the mountpoint at the 'server' on to the client again. > If I understood you currently then: Have a server with say /mountpoint and mount multiple client's /freediskspace to it /mountpoint/cli1, /mountpoint/cli2, /mountpoint/cli3.. and have all the clients mount server's /mountpoint to say ~/User? In this case, I would say that the amount of userspace available to a user is limited. It acts more of a "samba like shared-folders" where you have read-write permission. So, if a person uses up all the space available on /mountpoint/cli1/mydir he'd have to manually move/create another directory in /mountpoint/cli2/mydir. Which is not ideal. Ilug-c members have suggested GlusterFS and openafs, I'd be looking into it for now, if I receive no other suggestions. (Thanks guys!) Venkatesh Nandakumar Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
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