[Sussex] BIG disks....

[Rupert Swarbrick]

To act as a root partition, or /mnt/something?

> Sorry if this is a dumb question.
>  
> I have (maybe) a requirement to create a single big (a few Tb) 
> "virtual disk".
>  
> This will be, for various reasons, based around outboard FireWire2 
> hard disks, possibly using 1.6Tb drives, but more likely using 1Tb drives.
>  
> The question is one of disk management.
>  
> In the past, when I've had multiple physical disk drives on a server, 
> I've given each a mount point. What I'm really after is something that 
> functions as a hot-configurable controller, so that I can add extra 
> drives to the pool, and have them function as if they were a single 
> drive....
>  
> Possible? Easy? Pointers?
>  
> M.
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