Alexander Shaw wrote: > > Hi All, > > A concept for the future question this one. > > Is it possible to make a number of drives on a server (or number of servers) > appear as one large drive over the network. > > If so could some just give a broad outline of how this is achieved? > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Sure... Just mount them under one or one another. So for instance, lets say you have drives A, B, C and D. Drives A, B and C are local and drive D is remote (samba or NFS or whatever). Now make some mount points (dirs) on drive A and mount B, C and D on (under?) A. If you share drive A through Samba or NFS, anyone mounting drive A will see all four drives as one (assuming security is correct). I've got a number of old machines at work all hooked together like this with one Samba share off the base machine. The other machines NFS mount all their DASD to the base machine. Looks like one drive to any machine that connects. Best Cokey -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ F. 'Cokey' de Percin, DBA Email: CSC (formerly Mynd) Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Columbia, South Carolina Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
