Original Question:
>I need to have a single directory hold more data than will fit on to one disk.
>One of my users has an FEA program that wants to generate 700 Meg+ of
>temporary files. The program expects to put all temporary files in the same
>directory and can't be changed.
>Is there a way to have a file system span multiple disks?
Answere:
Sun has an unbundled product called "Disk Suite" that may do what you need.
Online: DiskSuite
Can mirror any disk, including the root parition and swap space.
Optional three-way mirroring.
Hot spare, can copy off of a failing mirror disk while it is online.
Disk striping, breaking up large sequential I/O request to several smaller
parallel requests to multiple disks on multiple controllers.
Online filesystem expansion; concatinate several partitions into one.
Maximum filesystem size = 1 terabyte (1 million megabytes).
QuickCheck - fast reboot recovery with improved 'fsck'.
Thanks to all who responded:
fourx.Aus.Sun.COM!kalli!kevin (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
Dieter Muller <merlin.rootgroup.com!dworkin>
auspex.com!guy (Guy Harris)
Patrick Gosling <eng.cam.ac.uk!jpmg>
Robert L Krawitz <Think.COM!rlk>
niwot.scd.ucar.EDU!era (Ed Arnold)
davinci.concordia.ca!gustavo
sunbird!trdlnk!mike (Michael Sullivan)
uunet.uu.net!synaptx!jen!rheaton
texsun!edsr!uunet!jtsv16.jts.com!bill (Bill McSephney )
cypress.com!mdl (J. Matt Landrum)
Mike Raffety <sbcoc.com!miker>
From: Keith Stone <snowbird!odi.com!keith>
From: snowbird!vest.sdata.no!birger ( Birger Wathne)
From: snowbird!trc.amoco.com!zjat02 (Jon A. Tankersley)
From: snowbird!sunne.East.Sun.COM!stern (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
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