Hi, On 22/03/2010, Venkatesh Nandakumar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > Yes.
> 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. > Yes, true. This did not occur to me. :) This is anyway a very simplistic solution to the problem you are looking at. > Ilug-c members have suggested GlusterFS and openafs, I'd be looking into it > for now, if I receive no other suggestions. (Thanks guys!) > Please blog about this or post it to the mailing list once you have the setup, for the benefit of others. Would love to know how this works out. :) -- Ninad S. Pundalik http://twitter.com/ni_nad http://ninadpundalik.co.cc/blog GPG Key Fingerprint: 2DF7 B856 C75E C9F9 0504 C0EF D456 1946 7C45 2C69 -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
