[lug] JBOD File Browser?

[Lori Reed]

On 09/16/2011 12:07 PM, Will wrote:

> LVM can concatenate two drives into one file system but will not keep a
> file from spanning the two drives.

Thanks for that info. I thought that was the case, but couldn't find any 
documentation that said so. Do you know if that's also true of JBOD?

 > Why do you want the two drives to be
> treated as one spanned entity but keep files from being able to span the
> two?

I knew someone would bite. Because that's what I want it to do. :)

If files don't span drives, then each single drive is still simply that 
- a single drive, with all the simplicity that implies.

And since 1.n TB drives are both cheap and readily available, and the 
biggest files I generally deal with at home are 4.n GB, by the time I 
have less than 4 GB on any single drive it's time to expand.


> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Lori Reed <lorireed at lightning-rose.com
> <mailto:lorireed at lightning-rose.com>> wrote:
>
>     Has anyone run across a file browser that could treat two or more drives
>     (mount points, actually) as a single entity similar to JBOD but
>     guaranteeing that no single file will ever span drives?
>
>     Or how about software that would allow two or more external drives to be
>     mounted with a single mount point in a JBOD fashion?
>
>     Either nothing like that currently exists, or my Google-Fu has failed
>     completely.
>
>     I have need of and am considering writing such a file browser, but I'm
>     not sure I'm all that ambitious at the moment.
>
>     Lori