From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 19:00:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA00196 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 19:00:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA00190 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 19:00:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA13447; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 19:50:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601030250.TAA13447@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: NETBSD ccd driver To: piero@strider.ibenet.it Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 19:50:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: davidg@root.com, eblood@winky.reno.nv.us, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601022350.AAA11516@strider.ibenet.it> from "Piero Serini" at Jan 3, 96 00:50:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Quoting from David Greenman (Sat Dec 30 00:14:10 1995): > > >What is the NetBSD ccd driver? > > > > It's the "concatenated disk" driver. It give you the ability to combine > > multiple physical disks into one logical volume. > > What's the benefit as opposed to, say, 5 different mounts? If you are silly enough to gate the news group "junk", it lets you fit all 220M/day onto two 150M drives mounted on the directory "junk". Basically its for things that don't split well at a mount point, like large dirs that can't be fixed, or big files that wouldn't normally fit on your drive. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.