Is it possible to create a software RAID0 over FS on Windows with networking enabled?

Question

RAID

The essence of the question is as follows, there are several machines that are quite ordinary, each of them plays the role of a server and performs certain tasks, each of them has 1 HDD 500 GB or more with 90% free space. What you want to get: 1 disk locally, which combines the free space of all N machines with the ability to turn off one of them at any time without killing the array. Something like www.flexraid.com/ .There is one similar solution, but it is made on a not very good basis and works with varying degrees of success, although it does everything listed above. To the question why not to make a normal RAID of them, I will answer, any "normal" RAID will crumble from any sneeze, for example, if you cut off half of the disks. In terms of "on top of FS", I mean that the data on each particular disk is stored in ordinary files on a regular disk and not in any "specially marked area", because it is problematic to restore data after a glitch in such systems. One way or another, this problem can be solved on crutches. But the question is whether there is a normal solution?
Linux is also possible, if there is an adequate instruction for this option (not from 1005000 console commands that only work for the author of the article in spherical linux in a vacuum). I think the question is relevant for many geeks, almost everyone has 2-3 devices in the house that need and can sometimes be turned off, and as a result of such a shutdown, the files that were stored on it should simply temporarily disappear from the disk.

Answer 1

This is called a clustered filesystem , the closest thing to what you want is glusterfs .
You have problems with the approach, for example:
Scratching data out of a crashed filesystem is the last thing. It is correct to have multiple backups, on completely separate media in different file systems.
Any administration example is primarily an illustration.
Administration is a complex process, in some places creative. (Especially storage administration). It is obvious that the author of any manual is not able to foresee all the systems and situations of application of his instructions, and therefore, he hopes for the reader's ingenuity.
The reader who does not want to be quick-witted, let him prepare to pay the bill from a more quick-witted specialist.