On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:31:01AM -0400, Peter Billson wrote: > > Then if one fileserver was down (even temporarily), then all the other > > fileservers (all four) would have to queue a message about the data and > > task and some heartbeat between fileservers could alert it when back up > > and then make sure that the particular filesystem is properly updated. > > > > What do you all think about this? > > Sounds exactly like RAID except that the disks are in physically > different machines. I wonder if you can set up software RAID to use NFS > mounted drives... hmmmm... may be worth playing with.
No solution, just a direction: The Enhanced Network Block Device Linux Kernel Module "It makes a remote disk on a different machine act as though it were a local disk on your machine. It looks like a block device on the local machine where it's typically going to appear as /dev/nda." "The intended use is for RAID over the net" http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/ from the Software-RAID-Howto: "Linux RAID can work on most block devices. It doesn't matter whether you use IDE or SCSI devices, or a mixture. Some people have also used the Network Block Device (NBD) with more or less success." florian -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers ------> Save the future of Open Source <------ -> Online-Petition against Software Patents <- ------> http://petition.eurolinux.org <-------
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