[TriLUG] Music Files (and a small rant)

[sholton at mindspring.com]

...but you could create a series of virtual block devices, mounted on loopback, and
implemented on top of a gmailfs.  At least in theory.....

however, I'm not about to try it out while still on dial-up, because
that would be silly. ;-)


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net>
Sent: May 27, 2005 7:43 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Music Files (and a small rant)

Ian Meyer wrote:
> how about a software raid across several gmailfs "drives"?

gmailfs provides a filesystem abstraction, not a block device
abstraction.  You therefore cannot do RAID with them.

-- Kevin
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