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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:15:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu (-Vince-)
Cc:        jmb@kryten.atinc.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, john@zyqad.co.uk, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrade to my machine
Message-ID:  <199508122015.NAA06728@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950812132056.9552V-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu> from "-Vince-" at Aug 12, 95 01:21:44 pm

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> On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > > > I hope mine is too...
> > > > 
> > > > 	Now my question is how do you figure out what the mounting point 
> > > > is for each drive? 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > unionfs ?
> > 
> > This is below the fs layer, this is _virtual_ disk type devices.  You
> > end up with /dev/cdX under 4.4 lite (sic, conflicts with scsi cdrom
> > driver on many platforms :-().  On an Auspex it is /dev/vdX or is
> > that /dev/vnX, been a few months, unionfs can not do what this
> > does, and that is scatter blocks accross partitions (yes, you can
> > stripe to one disk, though that makes a very slow disk, it makes
> > it cheap to work on the code.)
> 
> 	Now this would be neat but what will the output of df look like?

If you have never been around a stipe disk I suppose these questions
are not out of line.  However I don't have a lot of time to answer
questions at this level.  This is the last one I will answer about the
fundementals of disk stripe operation.  If Terry Lambert or one of the
others here cares to pick this tread up and explain what these things
are, by all means, please do, but I am not going to have time to do
that and work on any code :-(.

Here is what df looks like on my box when I am not playing with
stripe code:
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a       15871    11210     3391    77%    /
/dev/sd0d       15871     1217    13384     8%    /tmp
/dev/sd0e       15871     6522     8079    45%    /var
/dev/sd0f       95311    59505    28181    68%    /usr
/dev/sd0g      158863   121944    24209    83%    /usr/src
/dev/sd0h      173727   137736    22092    86%    /a
/dev/sd1h      475599   410211    27340    94%    /b
/dev/sd2h      475599   432456     5095    99%    /c
/dev/sd1a       15871        1    14600     0%    /tmp2
/dev/sd2a       15871        1    14600     0%    /tmp3

And here is what it looks like when I have my 2 wide stripe running
on /dev/sd1a /dev/sd2a:
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a       15871    11210     3391    77%    /
/dev/sd0d       15871     1217    13384     8%    /tmp
/dev/sd0e       15871     6522     8079    45%    /var
/dev/sd0f       95311    59505    28181    68%    /usr
/dev/sd0g      158863   121944    24209    83%    /usr/src
/dev/sd0h      173727   137736    22092    86%    /a
/dev/sd1h      475599   410211    27340    94%    /b
/dev/sd2h      475599   432456     5095    99%    /c
/dev/vd0a       31742        1    29200     0%    /tmp2

[Note, this is faked since I don't have that code compile into
the kernel on gndrsh.]

-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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