LVM over Network ?

[Thierry ITTY]

thought DRDB is not exactly intended for this, maybe you could give it a
try for that
or else try a distributed file system manager like CODAFS
just not sure you can get a 240 Gb flat space...

hth

A 14:57 09/03/2005 -0500, vous avez écrit :
>
>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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