From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 20:39:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stage1.thirdage.com (stage1.thirdage.com [204.74.82.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF61714FDC for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:39:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jal@thirdage.com) Received: from gigi (gigi.thirdage.com [204.74.82.169]) by stage1.thirdage.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA28013; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:38:27 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990309203903.00dde920@204.74.82.151> X-Sender: jal@204.74.82.151 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:39:39 -0800 To: Laurence Berland , Chris Tubutis From: Jamie Lawrence Subject: Re: A partition over multiple hard disks? Cc: "Marius M.Rex" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36E5F3D1.B13E3D15@confusion.net> References: <19990310013643.2963.qmail@www0v.netaddress.usa.net> <36E5EFBC.93294EE8@tci.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:23 PM 3/9/99 -0500, Laurence Berland wrote: >vinum does just that. I'm not yet up on using it so I'll let someone else >explain >the details, but there's a web page about the basics at >www.lemis.org/vinum.html or That's actually http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html. -j >something to that effect. It essentially does what you're looking to do, and >there's no need to mount /usr subsections separately. It also offers RAID 0 >functionality if you want. It can't quite do everything, as recently >pointed out it >can't yet be the root directory, but its still pretty darn good. I hope to >start >using it more effectively myself soon enough. Vinum comes with the base >installation of FreeBSD > >Chris Tubutis wrote: > >> "Marius M.Rex" wrote: >> > >> > In the realm of theory, it would seem possible to spread one Un*x >partition >> > over multiple physical hard disks. Now, I know that if I wanted to, I >could >> > spread the /usr partition over multiple hard disks if I separately mounted >> > /usr in one place, and say /usr/src somewhere else... /usr/local somewhere >> > else...et el. That would be easy enough to do, and a little editing at >> > /etc/fstab would get them mounted nicely. >> > But is there a way to seamlessly spread a large partition like /usr over >> > multiple disks without separately mounting subdirectories? It would be >kind >> > of a pain to go through and plan how much space I needed for the >> > subdirectories, and parse out each a piece here and there. (As I could >> > miscalculate and regret it later.) Is there any way I could get my FreeBSD >> > box to just mount /usr over two or more hard disks, as if I had simply >> > allotted the total space to one mounting of /usr on one physical disk? >> >> SGI IRIX can do this, but I don't know of any such functionality in >> FreeBSD (which doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it just means that I've never >> seen it). >> >> ct >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >-- >Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >Windows 98: n. > useless extension to a minor patch release for > 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a > 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system > originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, > written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for > 1 bit of competition. >http://stuy.debate.net >icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message