Making many network shares appear as one

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Published on 2010-05-28T21:40:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 22:34 UTC
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Givens:

  • disk is cheap, and there's plenty lying around on various computers around the corporate intranet
  • redundant contiguous large storage volumes are expensive

Problem:

It would be fantastic to have a single entry point (drive letter, network path) that presents all this space as one contiguous filesystem, effectively abstracting the disk and network architecture from the paths presented to users.

Does anyone know how to implement such a solution? I'm open to Windows and non-windows solutions, free and proprietary.

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Making many network shares appear as one

Posted by jimbojw on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by jimbojw
Published on 2010-05-28T21:40:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 21:42 UTC
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Givens:

  • disk is cheap, and there's plenty lying around on various computers around the corporate intranet
  • redundant contiguous large storage volumes are expensive

Problem:

It would be fantastic to have a single entry point (drive letter, network path) that presents all this space as one contiguous filesystem, effectively abstracting the disk and network architecture from the paths presented to users.

Does anyone know how to implement such a solution? I'm open to Windows and non-windows solutions, free and proprietary.

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