Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:31:36 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Wile Coyote <wilec@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1 fs on 2 drives Message-ID: <36B73678.F1FFFCBB@tdx.co.uk> References: <19990202162202.9970.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Wile Coyote wrote: > Note: RAID only seems to be a means of backup which spans over multiple > drives, but it doesn't seem to be able to support a single filesystem on > multiple drives or partitions... correct me if I'm wrong. AFAIK (and this had better be the case, we're using enough of them!) - RAID / CCD etc. will merge multiple 'physical' drives into a number of typically larger 'logical' drives, the file systems are created on the Logical drives, thus in our case 5 * 4.5Gb physical drives are merged into one 22.5Gb 'logical' drive, which is then created as one filesystem = 22Gb's of space (spanning all 5 drives)... If your into RAID have look at Vinum (it's part of 3.0-RELEASE onwards) (man vinum) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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