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From: cinnion@pell.dneedham.com (Douglas Wade Needham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual file systems (striping) on BSDI 3.0x86?
Date: 29 Apr 1997 15:31:34 GMT
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Terry Kennedy (terry@spcuna.spc.edu) wrote:
: Robert Sink <sinkr@tempermental.cbl.cees.edu> writes:
: > 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.
: "man splice"?
A couple of things to remember (which I found out when testing
the early alpha/beta splice support while I was at CompuServe):
1) you will need to configure your kernel to support the splice device
2) you will need to do a MAKEDEV
3) If you splice a 2GB drive with two 4GB drives, the 4GB drives will
appear to show up twice when you do the splice, but that is fine.
4) You will need to make arrangements to run splice at boot time
or do it manually.
- doug
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