I have never done this but this is where I would start
1 - raid - hardware/software scsi/ide - depending on your money/needs (personally I like software w/ sata drives) 2 - 2 servers 3 - network raid 1 or rsync 4 - heartbeat to switch the servers when one goes down.
On 6/13/07, Farkas Levente lfarkas@bppiac.hu wrote:
hi, we've a few 10-20 server in a lan each has 4-8 hdd. we'd like to create one big file server on these server hard disks and we'd like to create it in a redundant way ie:
- if one (or more) of the hdd or server fails the whole filesystem still
usable and consistent.
- any server in this farm can see the same storage/filesystem.
it's someting a big network raid5-6... storage where we have about 40<partition added to the same network volume. and there is an fs over it which hide all internal network raid functionality. is there any such solution? i can't find any way to do this on our linux servers. thank you for your help in advance.
-- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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