RE: [MLUG] Distributed SMB filesystem

[Nathan Mahon <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Title: RE: [MLUG] Distributed SMB filesystem

The first thing that comes to mind is software RAID.
Mount the drives NFS, Possibly set up a loopback filesystem on each one and RAID 7 them together.
I don't know exactly how feasible this is... I'm gonna thing about it more.

n8

-----Original Message-----
From: yoda [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [MLUG] Distributed SMB filesystem

Thanks, but what I really wanted was for all the files to be available from the
same directory, and also for a file saved to that directory to automagically go
on one of the Windows boxes. There are no user directories, because everyone
logs in under a guest account. (Sorry I didn't make that clear before)

Basically, what would be great is if I had a big disk in the server that
everyone could read/write to. Unfortunately, we don't have the $$ for that, so I
was wanting to skim 10GB from each of the Windows boxes and pretend that it's a
big disk on the server.

"It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters." - Vanna White

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Dave Lloyd wrote:

> We used to do something similar with the sgis on campus, but with NFS.
>
> Basically, make a directory on your box called /net.  Each server has
> a directory under net.  So, you have /net/winserver1 , /net/winserver2 ,
> etc.  Mount them as smbfs in /etc/fstab and give users home direcories
> on them (or make them scratch space, whatever).  EZ stuff. :)
>
> --dlloyd
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