Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Thu Jul 26 03:13:56 UTC 2007


Josh Tolbert wrote:
> 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
>   
dump(3)?
-Garrett


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