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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Logical Volumes in FreeBSD?
Date: 22 Aug 1996 16:59:08 +0100
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Ollivier Robert (Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr) wrote:
:  [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]

: In article <4vb4l7$2eo@news.toolcity.net>,
: Thomas Dylewski <dizzy@wrench.toolcity.net.> wrote:
: > Is there a way to make multiple physical partitions into one logical volume
: > in FreeBSD?  If not, could someone point me to a *nix solution that will?

: Look at the ccd driver; it does mirroring and/or stripping.

: Man ccd(4) and ccdconfig(8).

However, for a news server, you'll get better throughput if you can
just make some of the /var/spool/news directories into mount points.
- This may not be practical for your scenario, in which case ccd is
the answer :0

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....