Hi, I need to create a massive (relatively! and expandable storage area for digital images with as much redundancy as practically possible. Ideally it would be accessed using eSATA but gigabit ethernet will do. I guess I'm trying to create my own local mini-cloud. I use an OSX client. Budget is tight! It's critical that the system never loses any data in the event of a disk/server failure. I was thinking of using microservers, each with three X 2TB disks set up using RAID 5. I can set up each individual server but how can I create the 'Pool'? I want to be able to access all the files apparently through one point, not have to browse separate servers. If I follow this howto using GlusterFs: http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-...storage-server-with-glusterfs-on-ubuntu-10.04 can I simply create multiple versions of the server and have each instance seamlessly add to my pool of storage? Will GlusterFs automagically take care of my data should one server/disk fail? Is there an easier way to solve my problem? I'd be grateful for any pointers Thanks S
