damn in the entire collage there has to 4 or 5 terabytes going begging i find it hard to believe unix doesn't have a simple cmd line that says "make all free network hard drive space one contiguous volume" ;)
maybe mac os x server has some tricks up it sleeves?? Al Bruce Johnson relpied: > In practical terms: No. What you're talking about is a distributed RAID. > > Could it be done? Yes. There is some network-centric computing research > that also involves divvying up drive space, but it is a configuration > nightmare, to say the least. > > Now you could, with an insanely complicated scheme of NFS mounts, do > this as 15 separate volumes. > Al wrote: > > hi > > not sure if this is the right forum.... > > however.... > > i was wondering if it was possible to make a > > "transparently contiguous virtual volume" > > out of the unused hard drive space in a computer lab EG: > > 15 computers with on average 8gb free space > > (after allowing ample room for the os and applications) > > making a total of 120gb > > ????a -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
