Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 09:12:37 -0800 From: Curt Mayer <curt@emergent.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NETBSD ccd driver Message-ID: <199512301712.JAA13622@bluewhale.emergent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Dec 1995 05:22:29 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951230051929.714D-100000@ncc-1701-d>
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> > >What is the NetBSD ccd driver? > > It's the "concatenated disk" driver. It give you the ability to combine > > multiple physical disks into one logical volume. > Allright... lemme get this straight. Let's say I have a bunch of small > hard disks lying around... let's say I had four 40 MB'ers, maybe one 100 > MB... maybe even an old 250 MB or so... and eight 20 MB disks (hey, I > upgraded a lot of machines)... then I can use the ccd driver and slap them > all together to make a single (in this example) 670 MB logical "disk"? > This would be extremely cool, since I have a similar situation. yes, but...your mtbf would suck so bad you wouldn't want to use it for anything other than /tmp. > Is this available under FreeBSD yet? my guess at this point is about 1 Feb, since I haven't quit my day job :-> curt
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