what about nfs ?
Isn't that an option ? or is dfs and nfs the same ?
tho i guess nt, os/2 req commercial s/w
Cheerio
Robin
Syed Khader Vali wrote:
> Hi *,
> I have a problem at hand. We have around 40 machines in the lab
> comprising of around 9 different operations systems ( which include
> Linux, NT , OS/2 and other Commercial Unices ). Now there is so much
> wastage of space on all these machines, that we have decided to go for
> collating all this space and mapping it onto a single machine. Now all
> this has to be done in such a way that there is no performance loss in
> the network.
> Coda unfortunately is only available on Linux and BSD's and not so
> stable from what I understood.
> Samba maybe a solution, but how do we collate all that into a single
> space and also there might be network performance issues.
> Then another options is DFS which seems to be present on most unices,
> but I dunno about how good it is on Linux and other *BSD's.
> I wanted to know if anybody is doing similar stuff !
>
> Because again Linux has to handle all this stuff. Would be glad if
> anyone can help !!
> Thanks
> Regards
> Carter
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