Gconcat + growfs: we are not growing
Rudi Kramer
rudi.kramer at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 07:16:15 UTC 2012
On 19 June 2012 18:55, <kpneal at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Try ZFS. You can maximize your storage easily with ZFS if you want.
>
> With ZFS you can add multiple disks and ZFS will spread the data out
> across them. ZFS also keeps track of what file is where. If you lose a
> disk then ZFS is supposed to tell you what files you lost, but the
> rest of the filesystem should be fine.
>
> ZFS can do mirroring, and it can do raid, but neither is required. If
> you do neither mirroring nor raid then the amount of space you get is
> the sum of the sizes of your disks. It sounds like that's what you want.
>
Thanks Mark, That's pretty much exactly what I was looking for.
Cheers
Rudi
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