From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 2 15:22:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25413 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:22:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25401 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:22:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA25808 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:52:46 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id JAA03580 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:52:44 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:52:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1 fs on 2 drives Message-ID: <19990203095244.Y1179@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990202162202.9970.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990202162202.9970.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Wile Coyote on Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:22:02AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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