From: Goswin v. B. <bre...@in...> - 2007-04-15 11:09:33
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Prashant <mai...@gm...> writes: > Hi All, > > I am thinking of a filesystem wherein one can efficiently utilize the disk > space if say there are 2 hard disks on a system.This is also lead to some > increase in performance of read and write. Considering one of the senario > that a very big file can be split into two halfs and stored on different > disks if the space on first drive is insufficient. Otherwise also storing a > very big file across two disk. Can someone critic on the problem senario? You are doubling the risk of failure. You are reinventing the wheel. Why not use software raid or lvm? MfG Goswin |