Brian Vagnoni on 14 Feb 2009 14:48:52 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] "pooled" storage


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From: Mag Gam
> But I am stuck on how to glue together these 4 logical links into one.
>  Is there a "meta data" technique I am not aware of?
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Perhaps FreeNAS can help you and offers ZFS support. 

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2009 13:06:58 -0500
Subject: [PLUG] "pooled" storage


> This is more of a theoretical question.
> 
> The advantage of pooled storage is it makes more efficient use of
> physical storage versus logical volume model. I was wondering if there
> is a filesystem technique with symbolic links which can emulate a
> pooled storage model similar to ZFS.
> 
> I was thinking of something like in this line, have x amount of
> physical filesystems:
> /physical/disk0
> /physical/disk1
> /physical/disk2
> /physical/disk3
> 
> Then have a logical filesystem:
> /pool which would have softlinks (have to be) from
> /physical/diskX...so,
> 
> ln -s /physical/disk0 /pool/d0;
> ln -s /physical/disk1 /pool/d1;
> ln -s /physical/disk2 /pool/d2;
> ln -s /physical/disk3 /pool/d3;
> 

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