Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:23:45 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Chris Tubutis <chris@tci.com> Cc: "Marius M.Rex" <mariusrex@netscape.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A partition over multiple hard disks? Message-ID: <36E5F3D1.B13E3D15@confusion.net> References: <19990310013643.2963.qmail@www0v.netaddress.usa.net> <36E5EFBC.93294EE8@tci.com>
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vinum does just that. I'm not yet up on using it so I'll let someone else explain
the details, but there's a web page about the basics at www.lemis.org/vinum.html or
something to that effect. It essentially does what you're looking to do, and
there's no need to mount /usr subsections separately. It also offers RAID 0
functionality if you want. It can't quite do everything, as recently pointed out it
can't yet be the root directory, but its still pretty darn good. I hope to start
using it more effectively myself soon enough. Vinum comes with the base
installation of FreeBSD
Chris Tubutis wrote:
> "Marius M.Rex" wrote:
> >
> > In the realm of theory, it would seem possible to spread one Un*x partition
> > over multiple physical hard disks. Now, I know that if I wanted to, I could
> > spread the /usr partition over multiple hard disks if I separately mounted
> > /usr in one place, and say /usr/src somewhere else... /usr/local somewhere
> > else...et el. That would be easy enough to do, and a little editing at
> > /etc/fstab would get them mounted nicely.
> > But is there a way to seamlessly spread a large partition like /usr over
> > multiple disks without separately mounting subdirectories? It would be kind
> > of a pain to go through and plan how much space I needed for the
> > subdirectories, and parse out each a piece here and there. (As I could
> > miscalculate and regret it later.) Is there any way I could get my FreeBSD
> > box to just mount /usr over two or more hard disks, as if I had simply
> > allotted the total space to one mounting of /usr on one physical disk?
>
> SGI IRIX can do this, but I don't know of any such functionality in
> FreeBSD (which doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it just means that I've never
> seen it).
>
> ct
>
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