From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 30 10:47:50 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA10319 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 10:47:50 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA10310 ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 10:47:47 -0800 Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id MAA02173; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:46:37 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199511301846.MAA02173@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Concatenated Drives ... To: scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:46:36 -0600 (CST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Nov 29, 95 06:04:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Hi... > > I've seen some discussions go by dealing with the > ability to make multiple drives look like one big drive, and I'm > curious as to what is involved in doing so? > > Mainly, isn't that what the swap devices are doing already? > Or is there something extra that needs to be added when combining > several drives into one virtual drive? > > This is purely out of curiosity... An issue at which I am once again looking... I have several "perfect applications" for this but I really don't know a lot about kernel device drivers, so anyone else interested and willing to help - please do! ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847