I realize that since NFS is not block-level, LVM can't be used directly.
However: is there a way to combine multiple NFS exports (from, say, 3 servers) into one mount point on a different server?
Specifically, I'd like to be able to do this on RHEL 4 (or 5, and re-export the combined mount to my RHEL 4 server).
expansion
The reason I pegged lvm is that I want a bunch of exported mounts (servera:/mnt/export, serverb:/mnt/export, serverc:/mnt/export, etc) to all mount at /mnt/space so that my /mnt/space on this server (serverx) as one large filesystem.
Yes, I know that re-exporting is generally a Bad Thing™ but thought it might work, if there was a way to accomplish this on a newer release as opposed to an older one
From reading the unionfs docs, it appears that I can't use it over a remote connection – have I misread it? More accurately, since Union FS merges the contents of multiple branches, but makes them appear as one, it doesn't seem to go in reverse:
I'm trying to mount a bunch of NFS points in a merged fashion, then write to them – not caring where data goes, a la LVM .
Best Answer
GlusterFS is very good for this job, you can also consider Lustre maybe (I have not used that one yet though) GlusterFS is NFS independent software but it would be very easy to move on that. You can also use it for Raid 10 networks which you might need in the future and it is very easy to scale.