On Tuesday June 26, nodes@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Posting it here seems the best thing to do. > > To the inventor goes naming privilege and I'm calling this one softer raid. > It is a form of storage raid implemented in software, as contrasted to > software and hardware raid which are dependent on using required hardware. > > To create a loop filesystem is straight forward. The commands are dd, > mkfs.*, mount -o loop. Basically what I propose is that the image file is > copied to another harddisk (in the case of ide not on the same cable) and > it too is mounted in conjunction of the original with cooperation. When a > read request for a block of say 100k is made, the kernel pulls 50k from > each disk - maybe a simple doubling of throughput. Sounds a lot like "RAIF" - ask google for details. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
