network raid possible?

Luke Davis ldavis at shellworld.net
Wed Mar 24 21:22:54 EST 2004


Mind you it's probably a bad idea, but isn't there a network-fs-howto, or
something like that?  I remember reading about what you describe (not
raid, but it would follow), in a howto with a similar name.

 On Tue, 23 Mar
2004, Shane Wegner wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:57:23PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > know if its currently possible to add network filesystems to a RAID?
> > Because if so, what I'd like to implement is a system where all the
> > networked filesystems are synchronized to each other. So in other words,
> > any changes made from my machines here gets proppogated to the rest of
> > them since they're all seen as 1 disk.
>
> This should be possible using nbd (network block devices).
> See Documentation/nbd.txt in your nearest kernel tree.
> Combined with software raid1, this might do what you want.
>
> S
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