LVM over Network ?

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

Hello,
I have a small beowulf cluster for parallel processing (with MPI / MPICH) 
consist of eight Dell workstation on a LAN. Each workstation has 40 GB hard 
drive, and only small part of it is used for the OS installation. 

I am trying to find an optimized way to use the excess space on the those 
harddrives (about 30 GB x 8 = 240 GB) that are scattered over 8 different 
workstation on a LAN.

I've read a bit about LVM, never actually used it before, that it's good for 
many disks configuration. So I am wondering if there is such thing as LVM 
over network ? If not, what is my other option ?

What I want basically, if I could just 'collect' those 210 GB excess space so 
that I could use it for eg. /home, or something, that would be great. 

Thanks for any thoughts or info.

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN

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