Mark Janssen wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:02:06AM +0000, Kozman Balint wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > is there any way to link two (or more) block devices (ex: two hard disks) > > into one logical block device? I need this to be able to copy a file of > > 70Gb to a machine which has two disks of 40 Gb. > > Yes.. You should be able to use the 'md' driver/subsystem to create a big > virtual drive across multiple drives. > There is only one problem... a 70 Gig file won't fit... since there is a > filesize limitation (I think 2GB) So you'd have to split up the file in 2GB > parts anyway, and then it's useless to go the hard way with md or lvm
As mentioned before, the 2GB limit was removed in the 2.4 kernels. Also have a look at the LVM that is included in the 2.4 kernels. It should allow you to dynamically add disks to a "virtual" partition. Maarten Vink