network raid possible?

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi Luke. Did you any chance read about Network Block Devices (nbd's) 
possibly? I really like this idea, its an excellent concept but it seems 
not all the bugs have been ironed out.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:22:54PM -0600, Luke Davis wrote:
> 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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