From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 14:21:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB7A37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:21:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691FE43F3F for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:21:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by sasami.jurai.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0TMLHvA031522; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:21:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:21:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: David Gilbert Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network block device. In-Reply-To: <15928.21248.483298.203713@canoe.velocet.net> Message-ID: <20030129171908.G8642@sasami.jurai.net> References: <15928.6900.948346.474717@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129170512.Y8642@sasami.jurai.net> <15928.21248.483298.203713@canoe.velocet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message