Re: Idea: Network RAID == Distributed FS
Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:47:42 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Glenn.McGrath wrote:
> By combining two existing features, network filesystem*(eg NFS, SMB?),
> and RAID , it should be possible to setup a raid system over a network
> instead of over /dev/hdxx or /dev/sxx (whatever scsi is) with minimal
> effort as compared to doing a DFS from scratch, or without kernel level
> support . The advantages i see in this method are.
You can use the network block device driver (nbd) to do RAID over a
network.
Jeff
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