++ 14/12/05 18:23 +0000 - <John Rowe>:

Hi,

> > What do you want to do with this filesystem? 
> 
> Aways a good question. I have a bunch of nonidentical  PCs running SL4.x
> connected by gigabit. People can log into any of them and see their home
> space. Currently I do this by having two of them as file servers, each
> with a mirrored disk pair. Ideally I would like to have a single virtual
> "/home" filesystem which I could add physical disks to and which is
> resilient to any one node being down.

I don't know what your load is like, but can't NFS do this for you and LVM?

For the requirement of serving $HOME, NFS is a classic. Although I haven't
tried it, NFS 4 has failover. Maybe someone else has a better suggestion? 

For the requirement of disk management, LVM should do the trick. There are a
bunch of papers online about using LVM/Raid.  You can load and configure using
kickstart. I have a ks.cfg that I can send to you if you interested, but
basically I used a version from the net and modified it for my use.

Sounds like you don't need too fancy a configuration.

> Needless to say, there's no budget for any fancy hardware.
 
I know that feeling.

John

> John

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