On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:31:01AM -0400, Peter Billson wrote:
> > Then if one fileserver was down (even temporarily), then all the other
> > fileservers (all four) would have to queue a message about the data and
> > task and some heartbeat between fileservers could alert it when back up
> > and then make sure that the particular filesystem is properly updated.
> >
> > What do you all think about this?
>
> Sounds exactly like RAID except that the disks are in physically
> different machines. I wonder if you can set up software RAID to use NFS
> mounted drives... hmmmm... may be worth playing with.
No solution, just a direction:
The Enhanced Network Block Device Linux Kernel Module
"It makes a remote disk on a different machine act as though it were a
local disk on your machine. It looks like a block device on the local
machine where it's typically going to appear as /dev/nda."
"The intended use is for RAID over the net"
http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/
from the Software-RAID-Howto:
"Linux RAID can work on most block devices. It doesn't matter whether
you use IDE or SCSI devices, or a mixture. Some people
have also used the Network Block Device (NBD) with more or less success."
florian
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