Multiple Disks to be seen as one

2001-07-02 Thread Matt Chipman
Hi all is it possible to have 2 or more disks in a debian box linked together in such a way so that as a share over a network (using samba) thay appear as one big disk? When files are dropped onto them, there is no out of disk space errors because they are addressed as one? If so what is this

Re: Multiple Disks to be seen as one

2001-07-02 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:37:56PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote: is it possible to have 2 or more disks in a debian box linked together in such a way so that as a share over a network (using samba) thay appear as one big disk? When files are dropped onto them, there is no out of disk space

Re: Multiple Disks to be seen as one

2001-07-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya matt If so what is this method called? I want ot do some experimenting with it. raid - probably use stripping so that if you have 2 disks, you have 2x capacity ... md-tools in the old dayz disks are huge nowdayz...( 80Gb for $300 ) you should think more along the

Re: Multiple Disks to be seen as one

2001-07-02 Thread Ilya Martynov
JK On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:37:56PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote: is it possible to have 2 or more disks in a debian box linked together in such a way so that as a share over a network (using samba) thay appear as one big disk? When files are dropped onto them, there is no out of disk space