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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!bb-data.de!news From: mib@bb-data.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Date: 20 Mar 1996 15:29:00 +0100 Organization: BB-DATA GmbH, Berlin, Germany Lines: 18 Sender: mib@laforge.ppe.bb-data.de Message-ID: <kian35b25zn.fsf@laforge.ppe.bb-data.de> References: <4gejrb$ogj@floyd.sw.oz.au> <4gilab$97u@park.uvsc.edu> <4giqu8$aqk@park.uvsc.edu> <4gira2$a9d@park.uvsc.edu> <hpa.31321eee.I.use.Linux@freya.yggdrasil.com> <4h7t5i$qoh@park.uvsc.edu> <DnoqB4.2sy@pe1chl.ampr.org> <glDH59i00YUvFFjspX@andrew.cmu. <4hptj4$cf4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <3140C968.20699696@netcom.com> <4ia7im$i4m@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4if9gb$4kh@park.uvsc.edu> <314F1379.1FF4@visi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: laforge.ppe.bb-data.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: "Bigfoot's message of Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:05:13 -0600 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19679 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15690 In article <314F1379.1FF4@visi.com> "Bigfoot (Guy Gustavson)" <bigfoot@visi.com> writes: : I'd REALLY like to be able to merge multiple physicle devices into : one large file system. This can by achieved by having a virtual block device combining several physical block devices into one. Then you can run any old filesystem on your new 16-GB virtual hard disk. Doing it in the filesystem code proper gives you more control over possible optimizations and precautions against loss of irreplacable meta-data by physical volume less, but it makes things _way_ more complicated. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Martin Ibert, BB-DATA GmbH, Brunnenstraße 111, D-13355 Berlin >> e-mail <mib@bb-data.de>, phone +49-30-245-56582, fax +49-30-245-56577 << --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Disclaimer: My views do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. <<