> > That means, that you can "export" a block device on each of your 40 PCs
> > (youŽld export your 2GB partition). Then import these nbds on your server.
>
> But do not mount them RW and write to them. There is no locking inbetween
> machines, and you can get a whole lot of interesting results if you do.
Of course there MUST be only ONE accessing the stuff (and this would be the
server). In case of RAID5 distributed over nbds it wouldnŽt be possible to
(successfully) access it locally from the client anyway (because it sees only
part of a RAID array, no complete filesystem).
Thomas
