Hi, Well, you can take a look around at Oracle Cluster File System. I've been using it, for a while, and so far so good. It's free, runs on top of Linux, and despite it's name , it's not a file system only for Oracle apps, and it's part of the kernel since version 2.6.16 . Check it at http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ Best regards, Bruno Sousa --- Mensagem Original--- > On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior > wrote: > > ----- "Farkas Levente" <lfarkas at bppiac.hu> escreveu: > > > 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. > > ... > > > Hi Farkas, > > > > I think a start is to look on PVFS2 (www.pvfs.org). > > > > Or maybe using nbd and softwareraid ??? > > Neither will eliminate servers and disks as single points of > failiure. > > If want one filesystem overy many disks on many servers and > the ability to > fail a disk-volume (raid or whatever) or an entire server and > still have a > usable fs then you need something like GPFS with replication > enabled. Either > way, not a trivial config nor trivial software (GPFS for example > will cost > you $$$ unless you're academic). > > good luck, > Peter > > --------_______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >