On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:47:08PM -0500, 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.
Well, you might be able to get away with symlinks - it won't remove the
dirs once it has created them, and I see no reason why it wouldn't
follow them. But yeah, I was thinking in terms of LVM, over loopback if
you can't repartition - but you can add individual partitions to LVM
without adding whole disks, so I see no reason why you couldn't use LVM.
> 
> I suppose running a second node on the same box would be possible, but it 
> seems inefficient.
> 
>               Jeff

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