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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 13:21:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu>
To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au,
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Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine
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On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > 
> > > > I hope mine is too...
> > > 
> > > 	Now my question is how do you figure out what the mounting point 
> > > is for each drive? 
> > 
> > 
> > unionfs ?
> 
> This is below the fs layer, this is _virtual_ disk type devices.  You
> end up with /dev/cdX under 4.4 lite (sic, conflicts with scsi cdrom
> driver on many platforms :-().  On an Auspex it is /dev/vdX or is
> that /dev/vnX, been a few months, unionfs can not do what this
> does, and that is scatter blocks accross partitions (yes, you can
> stripe to one disk, though that makes a very slow disk, it makes
> it cheap to work on the code.)

	Now this would be neat but what will the output of df look like?


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