harddisk emulator/server

[Dieter S. <st...@co...>]

Most people are talking about connecting some external
harddisk over 1394. Is it also possible to emulate
and export a virtual harddisk by a Linux box to some
other system?

There are many useful applications on my mind:

I may easily connect a laptop to it to make a backup.

Or I may supply other servers, running in a DMZ, with disk
space. The "disk server" itself may even be located on the
intranet without risk. This makes backup of those data much
easier. Particularly using LVM, you may even backup or reorganize
your disk space while the server is running.

would it be possible to "serve" several virtual devices
to several other connected hosts over the same 1394 link?

Dieter.
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