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From: bkogawa@primenet.com (Bryan Ogawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a disk striping utility for FreeBSD???
Date: 24 Dec 1996 02:55:01 -0700
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Chris Ziomkowski <czim@summit.bigbear.com> writes:

>Is there a package, either PD or commercial, which creates a
>file system that can be striped over multiple disks and mounts
>under FreeBSD? I'm trying to use FreeBSD as a usenet server
>with 6 2GB SCSI drives. A striped file system should improve
>the performance significantly.

Yes, there is.  What you're looking for is ccd.  I don't remember where
exactly to look, somewhere in berkeley.edu (or maybe even in the ports
tree?).  It's free, and a lot of people love it.

>Chris.
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