what is the best way to use free space on several boxes?

[Zeus V Panchenko]

Ivan Voras (ivoras at freebsd.org) [10.12.09 17:15] wrote:
> 
> From one side, you can simply create large files within the existing 
> file systems (e.g. a 300 GB file on each) to serve as virtual disks, 
> export them with iSCSI, import them on another box and create a ZFS 
> raidz volume out of those drives - you get a small amount of fault 
> tolerance here. The bad sides are: you need to have a large "fixed 
> space" file on each of the machines (you can theoretically create sparse 
> files but the downsides are even worse), only one box can see the 
> consolidated space (the ZFS volume),

what if i set cluster of FreeNAS-es and export to it the files as ZFS space?

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