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On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:10:11 -0500, <kpneal@pobox.com> wrote:

> You do realize that if you have a single filesystem spread across  
> multiple
> disks with gconcat then one drive failing will kill the entire  
> filesystem,
> right?

Media files are usually categorized under "non-important data" unless  
they're your life's work. I'm sure he's just trying to create more storage  
for his FreeBSD based media player or storage backend.