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- From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HP's Disk Array Implementation
- Summary: E Pluribus Unun
- Keywords: disk striping
- Message-ID: <36027@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:58:16 GMT
- References: <1992Jul10.154150.21926@news.uakron.edu> <67870141@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
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- In article <67870141@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> dhepner@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Dan Hepner) writes:
- >From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
- >
- >>Ona related topic, does anybody have experience with striped disks,
- >>either as file system space or disk swap? Are there any gotchas?
- >>I'm thinking of adding two 1.6GB drives as user and file system
- >>swap, creating one 3GB disk. Does this work reliably?
- >It wouldn't work for for filesystems if your filesystem size was
- >limited to 2GB. It wouldn't work for swap if swap was unable
- >to handle > 2BG disk partitions.
- >What do you hope to gain?
-
- I hope to gain space for large file collections. Right now, we have
- our files spread across several disks, and all those soft links are
- hard to maintain properly. Talk about spaghetti linking! :-) Also,
- faster file access is always important for such large files. Am I
- heading into a trap for the unwary?
-
- Tony Burzio
- Arete Associates
- San Diego, CA
-