On November 7, 2002 09:47 pm, Jeff Teitel wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:55:07PM -0500, Jeff Teitel wrote:
> >>Is there any way to span the native datastore across multiple
> >>filesystems/partitions/drives?  With the old monolithic store you could
> >>specify multiple storefiles and locate them anywhere.  Is there any
> >>comparable functionality with the native store?
> >
> > No. Implement it at the operating system level if you absolutely need
> > to. There is no reason to stripe it over multiple drives apart from
> > storage space, it doesn't need that sort of speed. Or you could just run
> > two nodes.
>
> At the operating system level wouldn't I need to create 256 separate
> filesystems, one for each directory in the store directory?  Not very
> practical.  I'm not trying to do it for perfomance.  I want to add space to
> my store, but I don't have just one large drive, I have several smaller
> ones.
>
> I suppose running a second node on the same box would be possible, but it
> seems inefficient.

Not if you are using linux.  There you would:
stop freenet
move half the dirs in your current store to a new location
create links to the new location in the store directory
restart freenet

Ed Tomlinson

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