What/who is sth?  The clients will be a mix of mounts from DOS via Samba
or Windows via Samba.

Thanks,
--Brian

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To: Brian McCann
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Subject: Re: FS Cluster?


Brian McCann wrote:
>       Wondering if anyone can help me out.  I'm looking for clustering

> software (?) that will allow me to take 3 PCs, each with a 20GB HD for

> example, and combine them to form one 60GB "disk" that could be 
> mounted from a client, and appear as one big disk.  I'd imagine I'd 
> need some kind of a front end box that the clients would connect to.  
> I'd also like, but not necessary, the way that it would distribute the

> data NOT to be something like RAID0, where part of the data is on one 
> server, and part on another...so if one server in the cluster were to 
> fail, the other data would still be accessible.  Does anyone have ANY 
> ideas on how this could be done, or what software I should look at?  
> I've been told by some friends who are big RedHat fans that Beowulf 
> could probably do this, but that's Linux based...and I'd rather stick 
> with FreeBSD.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> --Brian
> 
Hi Brian,

I'd recommend to write sth. about the client OS you plan to use. There 
are some solutions out there, but the all are special.

Jens
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