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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!news.abest.com!news.internetMCI.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.compuserve.com!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!xara.net!agate.xara.net!xara.net!emerald.xara.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Logical Volumes in FreeBSD? Date: 22 Aug 1996 16:59:08 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4vi04c$ft@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4vb4l7$2eo@news.toolcity.net> <4vc9bf$26k@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ollivier Robert (Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr) wrote: : [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] : In article <4vb4l7$2eo@news.toolcity.net>, : Thomas Dylewski <dizzy@wrench.toolcity.net.> wrote: : > Is there a way to make multiple physical partitions into one logical volume : > in FreeBSD? If not, could someone point me to a *nix solution that will? : Look at the ccd driver; it does mirroring and/or stripping. : Man ccd(4) and ccdconfig(8). However, for a news server, you'll get better throughput if you can just make some of the /var/spool/news directories into mount points. - This may not be practical for your scenario, in which case ccd is the answer :0 -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....