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. > > 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.
A network block device would work better, but it's not good enough to lump a bunch of nbds together, since if you do that you still need ONE machine looking after the RAID. i.e. you have a single point of failure. -- Michael Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
