[clue-tech] Create virtual partition from free disk space on
multiple networked machines
Keith Christian
keith1christian at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 10:38:02 MST 2009
Hi Dave,
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:24 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
>
> Do you really mean user? I think you'll need root, at least on the user's
> machine.
Either "root" or a regular user, the question is more whether
marshaling chunks of free space across several systems was even
possible with today's technology. I should have taken more time to
build out the question.
> You don't mean single partition, you mean single file system, don't you? Do
> you really need a single file system? I can understand why, just wondering
> whether you're sure.
Could be filesystem or partition in this context. We can mount
partitions on hard disks, or files like .iso's with mount's -o loop
arguments.
Thanks for the reply.
======Keith
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