Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 19:50:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: piero@strider.ibenet.it Cc: davidg@root.com, eblood@winky.reno.nv.us, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NETBSD ccd driver Message-ID: <199601030250.TAA13447@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601022350.AAA11516@strider.ibenet.it> from "Piero Serini" at Jan 3, 96 00:50:22 am
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> 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.
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