On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Tod Detre wrote:
> in 2.1 kernels you can mak nfs a block device. raid can work with block
> devices so if you raid5 several nfs computers one can go down, but you
> still can go on.
you probably want to use Stephen Tweedie's NBD (Network Block Device),
which works over TCP and is such more reliable and works over bigger
distance and larger dropped packets range. You can even have 5 disks on 5
continents put together into a big RAID5 array. (ment to survive a
meteorite up to the size of a few 10 miles ;) and you can loopback it
through a crypt^H^H^H^H^Hcompression module too before sending it out to
the net.
-- mingo
