From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Sully Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM across network Message-ID: <20031127155205.GD18005@electricrain.com> References: <11659189187.20031126163948@tnonline.net> <20031126165649.1fd1c51b.neuron@hollowtube.mine.nu> <199870551.20031126190959@tnonline.net> <3FC5AE3A.9080906@webhackande.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FC5AE3A.9080906@webhackande.se> Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Nov 27 09:53:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com * Rickard Olsson shaped the electrons to say... > > I doubt any network filesystem will allow you to disconnect a > > machine and still be able to operate. > > I have been eyeing Coda for a while now and it looks like it does > exactly that. I'm not sure about the storage requirements, though. It > appears it may need two full mirrors worth for the replication, but they > can be spread out over a WAN if need be. > > http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/index.html CODA is really dead. If you want a disconnected filesystem, check out Intermezzo, which is part of the Linux kernel as well. > iSCSI RAID, anyone? > > http://www.simplesan.com/products/iscsiarrays.htm I picked up a NetDisk from Fry's over the past week and attempted to get it to work. Unfortunately, the only Linux drivers they have right now are beta, and only for Redhat 8 & 9 at that. Their "admin" tools require Tk (not on a server!), and appear to be some hacked up version of their own code and net-snmp. The windows drivers worked a bit better, but would say "Drive has been disconnected" every so often, when nothing had changed physically. Nice (and relatively cheap) idea, but their implementation has a way to go. -D -- It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.