[geeks] Dynamic files / filesystems?

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Thu Jun 6 09:00:47 CDT 2002


On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:48:42AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> A 100gb IDE drive?  Yuck.  23gig SCSI drives are dirt cheap.  4 will
> cost less than 1 100gig IDE drive.

Where from?  Also consider that you now have three more points of failure,
and a lot more heat, as well as the lack of drive bays (and power) you
mention.

> OK, that is some interesting stuff there.  But, I wouldn't feel safe
> using it.  Unfortunately, this is exactly the sort of thing where a
> tool like perlfs would come in handy, but complaints against perl
> aside, perlfs is still in pretty bad shape.

perlfs is, AFAICT, no longer worked on.  It is therefore WAY out of sync
with the recent Linux kernels.

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