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From: andrew@aimmi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Disk Striping (VMS and Unix)
Message-ID: <751@aimmi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 14:24:42 EST
Article-I.D.: aimmi.751
Posted: Wed Mar 26 14:24:42 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Apr-86 07:26:30 EST
References: <192@cfa.UUCP> <27300003@convexs>
Reply-To: andrew@aimmi.UUCP (Andrew Stewart)
Organization: Heriot-Watt/Strathclyde Alvey MMI Unit, Scotland
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In article <27300003@convexs> hosking@convexs.UUCP writes:
>
>.....  99.9% of all user programs don't know or care that
>striping is being used.  Except for the increased performance, striping is
>virtually transparent to the user, too.
>accessed just like any "normal" partition.  
>
What is disk striping?? Interleave, I can cope with... but striping??

>Another, less obvious feature of striping is that it gives you increased
>flexibility with partition sizes.  If you have several "a" partitions that
>are too small to be useful, you can stripe them together to form a larger
>partition, without the need to edit kernel tables, recompile, etc.

Now, that sounds *handy*.
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