Disk Striping (VMS and Unix)

[andrew at aimmi.UUCP]

In article <27300003 at convexs> hosking at convexs.UUCP writes:
>
>.....  99.9% of all user programs don't know or care that
>striping is being used.  Except for the increased performance, striping is
>virtually transparent to the user, too.
>accessed just like any "normal" partition.  
>
What is disk striping?? Interleave, I can cope with... but striping??

>Another, less obvious feature of striping is that it gives you increased
>flexibility with partition sizes.  If you have several "a" partitions that
>are too small to be useful, you can stripe them together to form a larger
>partition, without the need to edit kernel tables, recompile, etc.

Now, that sounds *handy*.
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