Hi, On 9/20/07, Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to make a local machine see a network share as a block > device? yes, iSCSI
> If there is, then you could conceivably use software RAID 1 > with a network drive and the local drive. This seems like it would work > properly if 1) both drives are working and network connections are good, > or 2) one drive fails or its host machine fails. It would be > problematic if the network connection failed, but both machines > continued to operate--the two drives would then become out of sync, and > I don't think software RAID is smart enough to re-sync them. Nice idea. RAID does resync, but I don't this this would work because of the slow counterpart network device. > > Any thoughts? I've had a look at cleversafe. http://www.cleversafe.org/ Looks like a bit of a job to get going but it might do the trick. Any thoughts? Chris. > -Rob > > Chris Fanning wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > This isn't exacly a ltsp question, but here goes (sorry for the off-topic). > > > > We are thinking about setup two desktop servers on our national > > network. Users will connect to the sessions via freeNX. Perhaps > > loadbalancing with dns. > > If one server goes down we would like to use the remaining online > > server for all users as a failover mecanism. > > > > We are wondering what options you might recommend to keep the homes in > > sync across the two servers. > > > > Thankyou. > > Chris. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
