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  GlusterFS may be another option: Gluster was designed from the ground-up to be a distributed filesystem.
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  Windows Server has this functionality via a feature called DFS - Distributed File System. Basically you create a namespace inside your domain and you access it like you would a traditional share.
  For example, \\domain.local\ShareName\
  \\domain.local\ShareName\
  You put your servers into the namespace and configure DFS replication between them. Then if one host goes down, its data is still present on other hosts, and the transition is seamless to end users as they just continue to access the namespace, rather than the individual servers.
  Here's a different idea. You might want to check out FreeBSD/FreeNAS/Solaris (if you dare) and make use of the ZFS filesystem. It is possible to have a zpool span across multiple servers. Now if you set up the storage as a zpool it should be relatively safe and highly available.
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