From: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM over IP network
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:33:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144686838.8591.100.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a001c65b62$e7e624a0$64c8a8c0@balefirehome>
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 01:19 +0200, Sander Steffann wrote:
> Hi,
> I have 10 Dell workstation on a LAN. Each workstation has 80
> GB hard drive. Two workstations consumed most of the disk
> space and
> remaining eight workstations still has plenty of disk space
> unused.
>
> ...
>
> What I want basically, if I could just collect those 800 GB
> excess space (not utilized) and assign it to the work stations
> starving
> for disk space. Is this achievable through LVM or EVMS?
> I would never do something like this. You make each workstation
> dependent on all the other workstations. If one of them is turned off,
> crashes, dies, etc. your other workstations lose their data. Disks are
> cheap these days. Just buy an extra drive for the workstations that
> need it.
>
> Good luck,
> Sander
or put all these disks in one box and let other boxes boot from iscsi
and use centralized ip storage.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-10 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-07 12:59 [linux-lvm] LVM over IP network rarulselvan
2006-04-08 3:16 ` Zac Slade
2006-04-10 16:35 ` Ming Zhang
2006-04-08 23:19 ` Sander Steffann
2006-04-10 16:33 ` Ming Zhang [this message]
2006-04-11 6:29 ` Zac Slade
2006-04-11 13:08 ` Ming Zhang
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