On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
What might be a good way to provide one big filesystem for a few users which could also be enlarged; backuping the data is not the question.
Really? Does that mean you already have a backup, don't care if you lose it, or that you want something with redundancy built in (which still isn't quite the same as having a backup).
So how do you handle big filesystems/storages/shares?
The easy/expensive way is to buy an appliance like a NetApp and mount it via nfs. And use its own tools for snapshots, raid management, etc. I don't have any experience with it, but from what I've read I would say that 'ceph' is the up-and-coming way of doing your own distributed/redundant storage although I'm not sure I'd trust the pieces that turn it into a filesystem yet.