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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 1996 04:54:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
To:        Piero Serini <piero@strider.ibenet.it>
Cc:        davidg@Root.COM, eblood@winky.reno.nv.us, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NETBSD ccd driver
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960103045318.768C-100000@ncc-1701-d>
In-Reply-To: <199601022350.AAA11516@strider.ibenet.it>

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On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Piero Serini wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Quoting from David Greenman (Sat Dec 30 00:14:10 1995):
> > >What is the NetBSD ccd driver?
> > 
> >    It's the "concatenated disk" driver. It give you the ability to combine
> > multiple physical disks into one logical volume.
> 
> What's the benefit as opposed to, say, 5 different mounts?

If you have a lot of littler disks lying around, sure you can mount a lot 
of littler partitions, but what if you want to turn all these little 
mounts into one honking BIG one, like /news or /usr/src?

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