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From:  <ritz@interactive.spamthat.net>
Subject: Re: Virtual file systems (striping) on BSDI 3.0x86?
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Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 15:18:49 GMT
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Steve Rawlinson <steve@clara.net> wrote:
:P~ph@his.com (Paul Heller) wrote:

:P~>See http://www.bsdi.com/support/faq/BSD_OS-3.0/splice-driver.etx ... did
:P~>this on one of our news machines here, and it works very well - acts just
:P~>like one big physical drive, is very fast, and has been rock-solid (knock
:P~>on wood to keep pixies away ...).

:P~What are the consequences of a single disk failing on a virtual drive
:P~made up of numerous physical disks? 

You lose your data.  :)

Chris
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