Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:08:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: andrew@pubnix.net Cc: "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" <blkirk@float.eli.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CCD Dreams? Was (Re: Sendmail - low on space) Message-ID: <19980128120827.26052@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127203318.1792A-100000@guardian.fortress.org>; from Andrew Webster on Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 08:34:19PM -0500 References: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980127140825.13246G-100000@float.eli.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127203318.1792A-100000@guardian.fortress.org>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 08:34:19PM -0500, Andrew Webster wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Andrew Webster wrote: >>> On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Norman Hoy wrote: >>> Of course what would be REALLY nice would be a virtual disk driver like >>> AIX's JFS where you can just keep adding disks when you run out of space >>> on the logical volume! >>> >>> Oh well, we can at least dream... >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> I must admit I am lazy, and working out how >>>> much room to leave for /var and /tmp for some future time >>>> is just all too hard. re-partitioning hdd's is also too hard. >>>> Where as in comparision to my time several hdd's are cheap. >>>> >>>> So I put /var and /tmp on their own physical hdd. So if I run out >>>> of space all I do is get a bigger hdd and replace the one that is too >>>> small > >> I haven't worked with CCD at all, but it sounds like the same ballpark. >> Any idea how much code would have to be changed to get this kind of >> functionality? >> I really like the idea of having everything but the root be under a >> rubberized partioning scheme. I wonder how much overhead is involved? > > To my understanding, CCD doesn't really offer that because you have to > "Start-over" each time you add a disk to it. I'm using CCD on my news > server, but I've never needed to add another disk yet. The real problem here is not CCD, but UFS. You can't expand a file system, so expanding its partition doesn't help. Greg
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