[lug] JBOD File Browser?

[Will]

Lori,

  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?

  As for the simplicity that you are afforded by keeping files from spanning
disks if your file system spans multiple disks either by concatenation or
stripping you still loose the entire file system if you loose a disk
regardless of if files span disks or not.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Lori Reed <lorireed at lightning-rose.com>wrote:

> 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
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