RE: Can Multiple drives appear as one network drive?

["Alexander Shaw" <breedlings btinternet com>]

Sorry Just resurrecting this thread for a moment.

Which (if any) of these methods would ostensibly make the drives behave and
appear as though it was one single drive, rather than (I assume) a network
drive with a number of folders which are the other drives?

Alex



> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-admin redhat com
> [mailto:redhat-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Gordon Messmer
> Sent: 23 July 2002 22:01
> To: redhat-list redhat com
> Subject: RE: Can Multiple drives appear as one network drive?
>
>
> As others have stated: If you mount additional devices under the
> directory you're exporting, they should be exported as well.  However,
> you've been incorrectly advised that NFS will work.  Linux's kernel NFS
> server does not export submounts of an exported filesystem.  You will
> have to use a user-space server such as Samba for that.
>
> Samba also supports MS's DFS.  See chapter 4 of the HOWTO collection:
> /usr/share/doc/samba-2.2.3a/docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html
>
>
> On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 17:32, Alexander Shaw wrote:
> >
> > A concept for the future question this one.
> >
> > Is it possible to make a number of drives on a server (or
> number of servers)
> > appear as one large drive over the network.
> ...
> > p.s. should have added with out using RAID first time round ....
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Redhat-list mailing list
> Redhat-list redhat com
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list