On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 09:52, Marshal Newrock wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Sigurd Stordal wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 06 June 2003 15:59, R'twick Niceorgaw wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > is there any way I can mount two partitions (in two separate disks) as a
> > > single directory ?
> > That depends on what you want, If it is to get the to partition to act as one
> > large one, no I don't think so, but if it is to make the to partition mirrors
> > of each other I think it should work with just plain mount of the two
> > partition on same mount point. As far as I can recall it worked for me that
> > way.
> 
> I wouldn't think mounting two partitions independently on one mount point
> would work.  Only the highest mount (the most recent) would get anything.
> The one under it would just be supporting the mount.  If you wanted two
> partitions to have the same information, I think you'd have to have a RAID
> mirror.

google union mount

> I believe there is also a form of RAID which merely appends one partition
> to the other.  Also, the Logical Volume Manager (which I've never used,
> only looked at the description in the kernel config) may be of use for
> something like that.  I believe EVMS is a successor to LVM.

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