Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:52:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1 fs on 2 drives Message-ID: <19990203095244.Y1179@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990202162202.9970.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Wile Coyote on Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:22:02AM -0800 References: <19990202162202.9970.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Tuesday, 2 February 1999 at 8:22:02 -0800, Wile Coyote wrote: > Anyone know if it's possible to have a single filesystem on multiple > drives or partitions... ie, only one inode structure. > > If there has been any discussion about this topic in this mailing list > or elsewhere, please give me a few keywords to search for. Or, even > better, if there are any books addressing this topic, don't hesitate to > give me a title or two. As others have said, vinum (or ccd, for legacy applications) does this. Apart from the man page, see http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html. > 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. You're wrong :-) RAID also spreads file systems over multiple disks. > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com You won't be able to reply to me from that address. They're a mail harvester. That's why I also haven't replied to you directly. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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