From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 30 09:12:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA25460 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 09:12:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluewhale.emergent.com (bluewhale.emergent.com [140.174.2.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25450 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 09:12:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bluewhale.emergent.com (8.6.11/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA13622 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 09:12:37 -0800 Message-Id: <199512301712.JAA13622@bluewhale.emergent.com> X-Authentication-Warning: bluewhale.emergent.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NETBSD ccd driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Dec 1995 05:22:29 PST." Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 09:12:37 -0800 From: Curt Mayer Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > >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. > Allright... lemme get this straight. Let's say I have a bunch of small > hard disks lying around... let's say I had four 40 MB'ers, maybe one 100 > MB... maybe even an old 250 MB or so... and eight 20 MB disks (hey, I > upgraded a lot of machines)... then I can use the ccd driver and slap them > all together to make a single (in this example) 670 MB logical "disk"? > This would be extremely cool, since I have a similar situation. yes, but...your mtbf would suck so bad you wouldn't want to use it for anything other than /tmp. > Is this available under FreeBSD yet? my guess at this point is about 1 Feb, since I haven't quit my day job :-> curt