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Cc: Josh Tolbert <hemi@puresimplicity.net>
Subject: Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?
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On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote:
> I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He
> has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as
> one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe
> doesn't seem like it'd be smart to use with differently-sized drives. Is
> gvinum up to snuff and stable enough to use? Is ccd still supported? What
> would be your tool of choice?

gconcat, perhaps?

JN