On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 11:32:26AM -0500, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:

 > Is there a primer out there on File System types? Most of my systems
 > just use FFS, as I suppose is normal, but I'm wondering about all the
 > other types and what thier benifits and shortcomings are.
 > 
 > In particular, I'm wondering if Unix has something along the lines of a
 > NT Volume Set or Stripe Set. Sort of a RAID with no RAID controller.

In NetBSD, this is done with the RAIDframe driver, to create a virtual
disk, which you can then place an FFS file system (or LFS, or...) on
top of.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>