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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:21:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Network block device.
Message-ID:  <20030129171908.G8642@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <15928.21248.483298.203713@canoe.velocet.net>
References:  <15928.6900.948346.474717@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129170512.Y8642@sasami.jurai.net> <15928.21248.483298.203713@canoe.velocet.net>

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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, David Gilbert wrote:
> but that would be no different than using the nfs directly.  mdconfig
> won't aggregate several chunks of files ... and last I checked md wasn't
> entirely happy with nfs (some form of chicken-and-egg problem)

So use vinum, CCD or add the files as swap and make a swap-backed
filesystem.

No reason to invent a totally new low level filesystem here.

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