Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> 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
Ah, good idea. Hadn't thought of doing it with sym-links. (Don't know why,
I've done it before. Duh.)
Jeff
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