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. http://lcic.org/ha.html On 6/13/07, Farkas Levente <lfarkas at 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!" > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >