Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:14:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Craig Stratton <craigs@brandcomms.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: File Systems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960412121048.17713S-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BB2862.B4C5F980@neilw.brandcomms.com>
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On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Craig Stratton wrote: > Is there, or will there be, a facility on FreeBSD that allows me access multiple hard drives as a single partition/file structure. ie If my server has 2 x 4G disks, can i use it as 1 x 8G rather than mount / on one disk and /var/spool/news/alt on the other for example. Yes. It's called "ccd" and alpha versions are available from http://stampede.cs.berkeley.edu. It looks like it will also be included in -current. ccd is going to be a hot commodity. somebody better make sure it's mentioned in a convenient place on the web page and in the catalog. :) There are issues regarding news and disk setups; in some cases it would be more efficient to use separate disks that one huge one (as the separate disks and spindles can access concurrently). Hopefully oneof our news gurus will jump in here and post the little blurb about it. Besides that, ccd may not be stable eough that you would _want_ to run news on i Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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