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From: idacom!danny@uunet.UU.NET (Danny Wilson)
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Subject: Re: Disk striping.
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Date: 11 Oct 89 19:13:29 GMT
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In article <9330@saturn.ucsc.edu>, rgoguen@BBN.COM (Robert J. Goguen) writes:
> 
> Does anyone have any info regarding Disk Striping on a UNIX Operating System.
> 
> I don't have hardware to support bit/byte level striping. I am going to 
> attempt to do sector level striping accross N disks. I'm also going to allow 
> a single filesystem span N disks. I'd be interested in attaining papers 
> on this subject and general feelings.
> 
> Robert Goguen	rgoguen@bbn.com phone (617) 873-3667

This kind of disk system was mentioned in the promotional literature
for Apollo's quad-processor, mini-supercomputer (super-minicomputer ?),
Unix workstation, the DN10000.

While they claimed that this technique provided great power advantages
etc. they never really explained what 'striping' is.

Can anyone comment on what this is?


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