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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 1998 18:32:38 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Chris Sagar <csagar@iterated.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: software striping in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19980117183238.56291@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <34BF8AF1.1AF78DE9@iterated.com>; from Chris Sagar on Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 11:29:38AM -0500
References:  <34BF8AF1.1AF78DE9@iterated.com>

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On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 11:29:38AM -0500, Chris Sagar wrote:
> I have disk drives currently on SGI server that are software striped
> (i.e. 8 4-GB drives appear as a single 32 GB drive). I am planning on
> retiring my SGI server and am thinking for using FreeBSD. My question
> is:
> Does FreeBSD support some method of software striping to allow my 8 4-GB
> disks to appear as a single 32 GB drive? I would prefer to stripe across
> 2 SCSI controllers, but if only one works, that would be OK.

Yes.  The CCD driver currently does what you're looking for.  I'm also
working on a project which offers more flexibility, including RAID5.
Watch this space.

> Does FreeBSD support file system size of 32 GB?

I'm unaware of any reason why not.

Greg



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