[aklug] Re: Combined network storage space

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, William Attwood wrote:

> 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

Guys, what you're looking for is called a clustered filesystem. This has
been done for decades with systems like AFS, with newer entries like GPFS
being the current solution. You can try to do something similar with SANs,
but you still can't use conventional filesystems with concurrent access with
that, since caching on all accessing boxes will very likely cause
collisions, and not long after, corruption.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Sat Aug 16 01:14:50 2008