* Rickard Olsson <richie@webhackande.se> shaped the electrons to say... > > I doubt any network filesystem will allow you to disconnect a > > machine and still be able to operate. > > I have been eyeing Coda for a while now and it looks like it does > exactly that. I'm not sure about the storage requirements, though. It > appears it may need two full mirrors worth for the replication, but they > can be spread out over a WAN if need be. > > http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/index.html CODA is really dead. If you want a disconnected filesystem, check out Intermezzo, which is part of the Linux kernel as well. > iSCSI RAID, anyone? > > http://www.simplesan.com/products/iscsiarrays.htm I picked up a NetDisk from Fry's over the past week and attempted to get it to work. Unfortunately, the only Linux drivers they have right now are beta, and only for Redhat 8 & 9 at that. Their "admin" tools require Tk (not on a server!), and appear to be some hacked up version of their own code and net-snmp. The windows drivers worked a bit better, but would say "Drive has been disconnected" every so often, when nothing had changed physically. Nice (and relatively cheap) idea, but their implementation has a way to go. -D -- It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
