Drives & Shares

[Michael Glauche]

Am Die, 11 Jul 2000 18:22:56 schrieb Mike Westkamper:
> I have have 10 18GB SCSI drives on an intel box serving our network.
> This the same one I mentioned before should anyone remember. It is
> running SAMBA as a member of an NT domain. Working well, save a couple
> of odd things now and then.
> 
> With 10 18GB drives I find there is quite a bit of management and moving
> of files and shares as one drive gets used and we must slop over to
> another. Is there some neat way I can treat the 10 drives as one and
> have SAMBA or Linux worry about where the data gets placed?

you are looking for software raid or LVM. Both are included in the 2.4
releases
of the linux-kernel

regards, 
     Michael