On Wed, 13 May 2009 01:58:18 +0200 Raph <gibbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course, and so sadly, there is not a penny... > In order to make a network where any user can access > his datas whatever the computer he uses, I'm thinking about > the following kind of configuration : > - Each client (one of the 20 computers) runs a MBD daemon > which shares its HD to the server (the 21st) over the > ethernet. > - The "server" handle the 3.2TB in a volume group and > create the logical volumes with LVM > - The "server" also run a NFS daemon > - Then each client can grab it's data through NFS. > - happiness ... ? > ------ > I never did such a setup but already see a couple of > problems : > - each client need some private HD space to, at least, > boot enough to let the NBD daemon start. > - $10 question : if 20 users login, will the ethernet > be fast enough to support the load ?
While I've never had any chance to try distributed fs outside the sandbox, it looks like a best solution in your case, providing both speed and data redundancy. Specifically, I mean AFS (there's a bit outdated guide on gentoo-wiki), lustre and several other less-known projects like tahoe or pohmelfs. http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=pohmelfs -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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