Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:15:54 +0200 From: Rudi Kramer <rudi.kramer@gmail.com> To: kpneal@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing Message-ID: <CAJrXP6Osjg6vKxejq0yK-smZpGyGV1ffD4RJxheRtHwOA2usCw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120619165504.GA20497@neutralgood.org> References: <CAJrXP6PwVd%2Bth8crz18K0hODUtUtRMLh_VJFpPZ=Btp3NBYMEg@mail.gmail.com> <20120619131011.GA76729@neutralgood.org> <CAJrXP6NB9H7JPwjNOz32L5JmDpMW3mfQGL4wJYXH_SJ5kTcuPw@mail.gmail.com> <20120619165504.GA20497@neutralgood.org>
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On 19 June 2012 18:55, <kpneal@pobox.com> wrote: > > Try ZFS. You can maximize your storage easily with ZFS if you want. > > With ZFS you can add multiple disks and ZFS will spread the data out > across them. ZFS also keeps track of what file is where. If you lose a > disk then ZFS is supposed to tell you what files you lost, but the > rest of the filesystem should be fine. > > ZFS can do mirroring, and it can do raid, but neither is required. If > you do neither mirroring nor raid then the amount of space you get is > the sum of the sizes of your disks. It sounds like that's what you want. > Thanks Mark, That's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Cheers Rudi
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