Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:34:19 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Webster <andrew@guardian.fortress.org> To: "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" <blkirk@float.eli.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CCD Dreams? Was (Re: Sendmail - low on space) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127203318.1792A-100000@guardian.fortress.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980127140825.13246G-100000@float.eli.net>
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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI wrote: > 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. > --Ben Kirkpatrick (not getting any work done today) > > 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 > > > > > Andrew Webster andrew@pubnix.net Key fingerprint = CF E8 16 B8 A6 DB E3 C9 83 E7 96 24 25 58 15 6E PubNIX Montreal Connected to the world Branche au monde P.O. Box 147 Cote Saint Luc, Quebec H4V 2Y3 tel 514.990.5911 http://www.pubnix.net fax 514.990.9443
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