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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri)
Newsgroups: info.bsdi,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Using the concatentation/striping driver (cd.c)
Date: 10 Apr 1996 13:45:56 -0700
Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA
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I'm itching to use BSD/OS 2.1's /usr/src/sys/dev/cd.c to strip my news spool,
but I can't quite figure out how to fit it in.  I'm well-acquainted with
the concepts of striping and concatentation, but I can't figure out how
to *use* it -- aside from building & linking it into the kernel, do I have
to edit sys/mount.h to include a new filesystem type?  Are the devices at
the end of cdvar.h the component partitions?  What devices do I use for
newfs & mount?  Do I mount them as a new filesystem type, or as ufs/ffs?

Any help will be much appreciated.  I've crossposted to the netbsd
group since I thought it likely that the same driver might be used there.