From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 19:05:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B101065688 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:05:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC618FC1C for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OdSz1-0004IK-Vt for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:05:03 +0200 Received: from 193.33.173.33 ([193.33.173.33]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:05:03 +0200 Received: from c.kworr by 193.33.173.33 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:05:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Volodymyr Kostyrko Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:02:31 +0300 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <4C4DDA28.4070205@identry.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.33.173.33 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; uk-UA; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100722 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: <4C4DDA28.4070205@identry.com> Subject: Re: 1 file system, 2 drives? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:05:05 -0000 26.07.2010 21:55, John Almberg wrote: > One of my clients has a server that hosts big public-access type videos. > He started off with a separate 200G drive just for video storage > (FreeBSD is on another drive). This video storage drive is mounted as > /videos. > > He's just bought another drive, but now I'm thinking of what to do with > it... > > I know this is probably impossible, but FreeBSD can do so many > miraculous things, that I can't help asking... > > Is it possible to use the second drive to 'expand' the /videos file > system? So it would miraculously look like a single 400G drive? > > I ask this, because logically, I"m going to use the second drive the > same way as the first: to store videos. It will be really awkward to > have two mount points, and try to decide which video should get stored > on which drive. And no doubt it will get more complex as we go along. It > would be much simpler if this logical drive could just expand as needed. > > Any ideas much appreciated. Making two devices appear as one: * vinum; * gstripe; * ZFS. Making two devices look like there's only one: * union. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.