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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Striping Disks
Date: 18 Oct 1995 04:28:45 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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In article <460ogk$hnn@service2.uky.edu> soward@pop.uky.edu writes:
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>Anyone working on support for striping multiple disks into a larger partition. This could really increase throughput on IO bound machines, like inn servers, ect. Rumor has it that a Linux implementation is being worked on.

NetBSD has it working now.  With NetBSD/i386 and the FreeBSD binary
emulation support, you should be set.

-Andrew
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