[aklug] Re: Combined network storage space

I highly suggest an SAN/NAS storage solution; or at the minimum, a single PC
with multiple RAID controllers each hosting all of your drives. This way
you have a single point of contact; not multiple, which will slow down your
network due to congestion.
Good luck,
-Will

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Christopher Howard wrote:
>
> > I had a question... mostly out of curiosity. Is there a way that you
> > can take multiple PCs and combine them (in a non-literal sense) to
> > create one large network share? (Say, an smb, nfs, or ftp share.) I
> > mean, not by buying some huge enterprise server system, but just using
> > some 32 bit PCs, and some specialized Linux distro?
> > I saw some references on the Internet to SANs and storage clusters on
> > the Internet, but it tended to be above my head, not having a
> > professional background in networking (beyond the simple stuff that most
> > IT people know).
>
> I thought AFS or GFS would do this. It's been awhile since I looked at it
> (I think AFS is ancient though). It'd be cool if Sun's ZFS had this built
> in, but I have no idea if that might be the case.
>
> If you really wanted to get dirty, you might be able to go beyond a
> grid-style NAS and into SAN by playing with iSCSI and Linux or FreeBSD,
> but I don't know if this would satisfy the grid aspect you reference.
>
> Mike
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