<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 March 2010 19:46, Ninad Pundalik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ninadsp16289@gmail.com" target="_blank">ninad...@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
How tough would it be to implement this on top of sshfs? Mount all<br>
the partitions other than root for 'clients' onto a common location on<br>
a 'server', and then all the clients can mount that mountpoint and<br>
access the entire hierarchy? I have no idea if any problems of<br>
recursive nature will happen, but I guess you can worry about it<br>
later, as the current set of users is primarily Windows based and we<br>
don't expect them to play around with stuff. I've tried doing cyclic<br>
mounts between 2 systems, but I was sane enough to not experiment by<br>
remounting the mountpoint at the 'server' on to the client again.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>If I understood you currently then:<br>Have a server with say /mountpoint and mount multiple client's /freediskspace to it /mountpoint/cli1, /mountpoint/cli2, /mountpoint/cli3..<br>and have all the clients mount server's /mountpoint to say ~/User?<br>
<br>In this case, I would say that the amount of userspace available to a user is limited. It acts more of a "samba like shared-folders" where you have read-write permission. So, if a person uses up all the space available on /mountpoint/cli1/mydir he'd have to manually move/create another directory in /mountpoint/cli2/mydir. Which is not ideal.<br>
<br>Ilug-c members have suggested GlusterFS and openafs, I'd be looking into it for now, if I receive no other suggestions. (Thanks guys!)<br><br clear="all">Venkatesh Nandakumar<br>Department of Electronics &
Computer Engineering<br>Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee<br>