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Re: Multiple Disks to be seen as one



JK> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:37:56PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote:
>> is it possible to have 2 or more disks in a debian box linked together in
>> such a way so that as a share over a network (using samba) thay appear as
>> one big disk?  When files are dropped onto them, there is no out of disk
>> space errors because they are addressed as one?
>> 
>> If so what is this method called?  I want ot do some experimenting with it.

JK> It's called RAID.  Try google for a ton of pointers.  Be sure to read a lot
JK> of docs before you try anything with it.

There is also exists LVM: http://www.sistina.com/lvm/

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