> 2. It would be great if when my physical disk filled up I could just
> start writing on emptier disks located either in my machine or across the
> network.
Take a look at nbd (network block device) in cvs tree.
> Anyway, it's an idea that I would like to persue if any of you think it's
> viable. It would be alot of work to design, but hey, that's what senior
> design is all about, right? Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
I think that you _are_ talking about solution at filesystem
layer. Block device does not know what is free and what is not.
HA!
What about running nbd over all machines, mount it on single server,
and re-distribute using NFS? (Well, it will not be too fast :-( ).
Pavel
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