Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:10:23 -0700 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: directory inclusion in ext2/ext3 |
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:48:34AM +0200, Johannes Halmann wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:00:17 +0200 Mike Fedyk wrote: > >> 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 :-)))
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.
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