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From: sinkr@tempermental.cbl.cees.edu (Robert Sink)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Virtual file systems (striping) on BSDI 3.0x86?
Date: 25 Apr 97 20:21:58 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Lab.
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We are currently trying to migrate from BSDI 2.1 to 3.0 for our
news server.

What we would like to do is utilize multiple 4G HDs and perhaps a
4 or 12k stripe to 'load-balance' access over multiple spindles 
as well as have one large news partition versus several little
disks mounted at various points.

My question is that I have read the manual and the BSDI home page
and nothing is mentioned about it, so I'm assuming that it is not
natively supported.  If it is great -- tell me how.

If not, is there a commercial product out there that would allow
us to accomplish this under BSDI?

Thanks in advance.

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Robert Sink - Systems Administrator
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory - Solomons, MD.
[o] 410/326-7306