++ 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 ############################################## # John Goebel <jgoebel(at)slac.stanford.edu> # # Stanford Linear Accelerator Center # # 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 # ############################################ #