----- "Farkas Levente" <lfarkas@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > we've a few 10-20 server in a lan each has 4-8 hdd. we'd like to > create one big file server on these server hard disks and we'd like to > create it in a redundant way ie: > - if one (or more) of the hdd or server fails the whole filesystem > still usable and consistent. > - any server in this farm can see the same storage/filesystem. > it's someting a big network raid5-6... storage where we have about > 40<partition added to the same network volume. and there is an fs > over it which hide all internal network raid functionality. > is there any such solution? i can't find any way to do this on our > linux servers. Hi Farkas, I think a start is to look on PVFS2 (www.pvfs.org). Or maybe using nbd and softwareraid ??? Antonio. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Antonio S. Martins Jr. - Support Analist | "Only The Shadow Knows | | Universidade Estadual de Maringá - Brasil| what evil lurks in the | | NPD - Núcleo de Processamento de Dados | Heart of Men!" | | E-Mail: asmartins@xxxxxx / shadow@xxxxxx | !!! Linux User: 52392 !!! | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antiv�s e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos