https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/27/do-you-want-to-be-a-super-geek/ Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:47:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/27/do-you-want-to-be-a-super-geek/#comment-941 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:47:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/27/do-you-want-to-be-a-super-geek/#comment-941 At one time, I worked in a place that used “Dell” desktop systems for all the employees’ workstations. Given that anything important was supposed to be kept on the network servers to be backed up, there was a lot of wasted space on those machines’ local hard drives.I never tried this, but I considered experimenting with the following scenario:1)Set up a shared directory on each workstation’s disk.2)Create a large empty file of the same size in each directory.3)Mount each directory via mount.cifs and, treating the files as virtual hard drives, combine them into a RAID array.It would probably perform about as well as the USB stick RAID does if it worked at all…but at least it’d be a way to put all the wasted space on the Windows™ systems to better use.

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