Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
However I still fail to find a good approach. One initial idea was to export all physical volumes (partitions or full disks) vie NBD, join them all on a single machine into one VG/LV, create a filesystem and re-export that via NFS/SMB/... However, all data would need to go through the net twice. While speed isn't the most important thing here (but storage is!), that's way suboptimal.
GlusterFS with Unify translator is exactly what you are asking for. http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS -- Best regards, Hannes Dorbath _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/