From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 27 17:34:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07054 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:34:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guardian.fortress.org (fortress.org [199.202.137.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07007 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:34:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@guardian.fortress.org) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by guardian.fortress.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA01794; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:34:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:34:19 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Webster Reply-To: andrew@pubnix.net To: "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CCD Dreams? Was (Re: Sendmail - low on space) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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