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Date:      Wed, 8 Apr 1998 19:17:44 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CCD's - real concatenation?
Message-ID:  <19980408191744.31356@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <352B461D.9C76F180@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 10:40:45AM %2B0100
References:  <352B4193.8A6E52CA@tdx.co.uk> <19980408190617.06524@freebie.lemis.com> <352B461D.9C76F180@tdx.co.uk>

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On Wed,  8 April 1998 at 10:40:45 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> You *should* be able to configure disks this way if you don't
>> interleave.  I haven't tried it, but I have looked through the source
>> code.  It looks as if you can even specify interleave > 1 with unequal
>> partions, but in this case it truncates all the partitions to the size
>> of the smallest, definitely not what you want.
>
> I'd agree with that - considering it would chop everything down to the
> lowest common denominator... ;-)
>
>> vinum can do partial mirroring and true concatenation of unequal size
>> partitions.  It can't interleave unequal sized partitions.  I consider
>> it a bug, not a feature, than CCD should allow this.
>
> I'll agree with that as well... ;-)
>
>>> Or whether you can CCD' an allready CCD'd array?
>>
>> I still think this is a bad idea.
>
> Yes, your probably right - though it would be a handy way of concatenating
> two unequal CCD arrays into one big virtual drive... ;-)

You don't need this kind of trick to do that.  There are a lot of
issues with memory allocation involved with running layers like CCD.
For example, you can hang your system running swap on a CCD device.

Greg


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