Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!agate!nickkral
From: nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Striping Disks
Date: 17 Oct 1995 18:04:24 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley
Lines: 38
Message-ID: <460r78$mf8@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <460ogk$hnn@service2.uky.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: parker.eecs.berkeley.edu
In article <460ogk$hnn@service2.uky.edu>, <soward@pop.uky.edu> wrote:
>Anyone working on support for striping multiple disks into a larger
>partition. This could really increase throughput on IO bound machines,
>like inn servers, ect. Rumor has it that a Linux implementation is being
>worked on.
Rumors shomers.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/diskdrives
Look at md.lsm and md027.tar.gz
ncftp>more md.lsm
Begin3
Title: Multiple Device driver
Version: v0.27
Entered-date: 30JUN95
Description: Device driver used to group several block devices
as a single drive, whatever the interface type.
Support for RAID-0 (disk striping).
Some preliminary support for RAID-1 (incomplete).
Also supports linear concatenation of devices.
Keywords: device driver hard disk RAID striping
Author: zyngier@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr (Marc ZYNGIER)
Maintained-by: zyngier@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr (Marc ZYNGIER)
Primary-site: sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr public/Linux
31k md027.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp.mcc.ac.uk pub/linux/ALPHA/md
linux.nrao.edu pub/linux/packages/MD-driver
Platform: Linux 1.3.5 (require minor changes to work
with previous kernel versions).
Copying-policy: GPL
End
Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu