directory inclusion in ext2/ext3
Quoted 7 lines · On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:00:17 +0200 Mike Fedyk wrote:
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my idea of solving this is to have
an inclusion directive in directory-files...has nobody ever felt the lack of such functionality??
What exactly does this help you to do?
What do you want to accomplish?
hmm, i have a lot of huge files on different hard drives and wish to access them in a uniform fashion. i would like to sort ALL files in subdirectories but have no need for an LVM, RAID or similar. for example:
/mnt/drive1/category1/mnt/drive1/category2/mnt/drive2/category1/mnt/drive2/category2
(the data is so huge, that it is not possible to always merge categories on a single disk!)
what i would like to do now is to be able to display all files of "cat1" and "cat2" respectively in "/mnt/union/category1" and "/mnt/union/category2". yet i don't wish to simply link the directories as this would complicate access with growing number of hard drives the data is spread on!
it's a bit weird to explain, i hope it's understandable now :-)))
Johannes
Quoted 18 lines · Johannes Halmann
Quoted 7 lines · On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:00:17 +0200 Mike Fedyk wrote:
Quoted 4 lines
my idea of solving this is to have
an inclusion directive in directory-files...has nobody ever felt the lack of such functionality??
What exactly does this help you to do?
What do you want to accomplish?hmm, i have a lot of huge files on different hard drives and wish to access them in a uniform fashion. i would like to sort ALL files in subdirectories but have no need for an LVM, RAID or similar. for example:
/mnt/drive1/category1/mnt/drive1/category2/mnt/drive2/category1/mnt/drive2/category2
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(the data is so huge, that it is not possible to always merge categories on a single disk!)
what i would like to do now is to be able to display all files of "cat1" and "cat2" respectively in "/mnt/union/category1" and "/mnt/union/category2". yet i don't wish to simply link the directories as this would complicate access with growing number of hard drives the data is spread on!it's a bit weird to explain, i hope it's understandable now :-)))
Yes, I understand a little better.
But it just looks more like a good use for LVM than before.
You don't want the redundancy of raid, and are always adding space, so LVM should be perfect for you.
Just use a nice filesystem that resizes easily, (or even online (while mounted, etc)), and you're set.
Mike