shared online storage

[chrisb123]

Hi,

I'd like to setup a mountable shared online redundant storage device with my friends
e.g.
5 friends each share some drive space online, combined to make a single mountable device
preferable a setup that uses peers
what can be used to do this?

[RobinVossen]

FTP
Or ssh.
That you use ssh to connect to it or something?

[aliov]

also keep in mind you can use nfs if all your friend will access it from a Linux machines , or samba if you want some windows guys to access it .

ssh is powerful and secure , but you need to share a password for a specific user in order to let them access the drive, about ftp i don't have to much informations , but nfs is always the perfect way to do .

Regards.

[chrisb123]

ssh and ftp are slow
I'd like to stripe the information among the friends the reason for this is speed, 8kdown/384up.

Instead of downloading at one persons upload speed we download at the combined upload speed. We all leave our machines on 24/7 so availability isnt an issue. Any ideas what software can do this?

i find that fuse and sshfs is a good solution for a single mountable connection

[chrisb123]

How would the following work...

10 Computers on the internet
All 10 run a NBD server
All 10 run a NBD client of each and raid5 them together
read-only should work, will writing work?

[RobinVossen]

Thats really insecure.
But, yea you can do that

[unknown_user]

the security could be fixed by running a secure VPN