[lug] JBOD File Browser?

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Tue Sep 20 10:17:33 MDT 2011


On 09/16/2011 03:16 PM, Lori Reed wrote:
> On 09/16/2011 12:55 PM, Will wrote:
>
>>     JBOD is an acronym for Just a Bunch of Disks and is not a technology
>> or software package in and of its self.  I am not sure what your asking
>> when you ask if JBOD can span multiple disks as well?
>
> JBOD is a software package that allows (at least on some NAS products
> like the D-Link DNS-321) multiple drives to appear as a single drive.
>
> I was asking if, on a JBOD array, a file can span multiple drives.

Really not the correct use of JBOD, but unfortunately does seem to have crept 
into common usage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-RAID_drive_architectures#JBOD

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