Hi,
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:05:11 +0100, "Johan Gronvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> I'm new to this list so please bare with me if I ask stupid questions.
> I'm looking for a kind of linear solution. I have however got the
> impression that you can only 'concatenate' 2 disks or partitions to
> make a single md device. Correct?
No, you can have as many as you want.
> And both disks need to be reformatted. Right?
Yes.
> If that's the case, then who's actually using linear mode?
Me, for a start! I found it very useful to be able to combine together
a few scraps of spare space on a number of mounted disks to create a
scratch partition of useful size.
> Anyway, I found something that was called ext2-volume, a kind of
> extension to the ext2 filesystem, that made it possible to extend a
> mounted partition on the fly! Cool, but I don't know how to build
> it. It seems that I lack a file called ext2fs.h. Anyone tried this?
Yes, it is due to be integrated into ext2 in the 2.3 kernels, but for
now I wouldn't advise using it as it lacks some fairly important things
like e2fsck. :)
--Stephen
