Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

Josh Tolbert hemi at puresimplicity.net
Thu Jul 26 03:08:56 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:43:29PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote:
> > I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He
> > has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as
> > one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe
> > doesn't seem like it'd be smart to use with differently-sized drives. Is
> > gvinum up to snuff and stable enough to use? Is ccd still supported? What
> > would be your tool of choice?
> 
> gconcat, perhaps?

Talk about missing the obvious one...That should work. Thanks.

Josh
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