Posted by Arno Wagner on 10/02/07 23:47

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage qwertycat@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Sep 29, 4:44 pm, Arno Wagner <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> What is your question? I have used RAID5/6 in TB range under Linux,
>> so I guess doung the same under FreeBSD should not be an issue.
>> Export via NFS and you are done.
>>
>> Arno

> Can you provide any good links for tutorials on NFS? I have read
> Wikipedia's page for but don't understand how I can use NFS to create
> a virtual drive of 12TBytes spread over 4 servers and 24 hard drives.

Oh, you want one unified filesystem? Doing that with more than
one computer may not be a good idea. If you do, some type of
cluster filesystem should be used. Otherwise you could get
serious trouble if one computer goes down.

Come to think of it, why not put the 24 disks all in one computer?
This may need a cube-type server case and three 8x SATA controllers,
but both are available.

Arno

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