On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 06:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 9 > Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:26:00 +0100 > From: Francis Galiegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Unionfs] unified storage > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 2006/2/13, Dragos M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [...] > > > > The problem is that when the first disk on the unionfs mount fills > > (sda3) the application does not continue to write on the following > disks > > from the union, instead it crashes, being unable to work with no > space > > left on device (although the rest of the disks in the union are > empty). > > > > Is there a way to have the common space used all at once by > different > > applications? It would be great if unionfs were able to detect when > the > > disk is almost full and continue n the remaining disks/space, or > write > > balanced info, on all the disks. > > > > My guess is that what you really want here is LVM, not unionfs. > Unionfs doesn't coalesce disk storage space.
In my case, LVM is a complicated tool for a simple job. LVM is close to RAID and far from what I need: a simple way of coalesce disk storage space, unionfs seemed the right tool. I was certain it can do what I want when it was chosen because it seems a simple request/feature compared with it's other capabilities. I have considered both LVM and RAID and I'd rather avoid them both in the given scenario. Thank you. _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
