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  1. From: dhepner@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Dan Hepner)
  2. Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:10:50 GMT
  3. Subject: Re: HP's Disk Array Implementation
  4. Message-ID: <67870141@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
  5. Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
  6. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!hppad.waterloo.hp.com!hppad!hpfcso!hpcuhb!hpda!hpcupt1!dhepner
  7. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  8. References: <1992Jul10.154150.21926@news.uakron.edu>
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  11. From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
  12.  
  13. >Ona related topic, does anybody have experience with striped disks,
  14. >either as file system space or disk swap?  Are there any gotchas?
  15. >I'm thinking of adding two 1.6GB drives as user and file system
  16. >swap, creating one 3GB disk.  Does this work reliably?
  17.  
  18. It wouldn't work for for filesystems if your filesystem size was 
  19. limited to 2GB.  It wouldn't work for swap if swap was unable
  20. to handle > 2BG disk partitions.
  21.  
  22. What do you hope to gain?
  23.  
  24. Dan Hepner
  25.