On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 20:14 -0700, Don Calfa wrote:
>
> Kind of OT but a couple of years ago I remember talk about disk sharing
> in networks (my terms my be off) or sharing unused disk space.
>
> The premise is that since the default hard drive is about 40Gig for a
> desktop where an average of 20 Gig is used, there was some sharing tool
> being developed to create a type of NAS based on the availability of the
> drives.
>
> Something like a pod of 5 computers would share the same data and that
> data would show up as 20 Gig of storage on the network.
>
> I don't remember the name of the project but I remember being 'wowed' by
> the idea since some of the workstations equiped today have a default
> 160G hard drive and our server only has 120G.
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GFS ?
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/
see if your distro has an implementation available
Craig
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