Re: Idea: Network RAID == Distributed FS

G.W. Wettstein (greg@wind.enjellic.com)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 07:00:06 -0500


On Jun 26, 7:47am, Jeff Garzik wrote:
} Subject: Re: Idea: Network RAID == Distributed FS

> 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.

I have been wanting to try this for some time. Primarily for RAID1
mirroring. Is NBD reliable enough and how is the performance?

> Jeff

Greg

}-- End of excerpt from Jeff Garzik

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