jerry@utzoo.UUCP (Jerry J. Deroo) (07/16/86)
I was wondering if there had been any discussion about single files
spanning multiple devices and possible solutions to the problem.
I have been trying to address the problem in a way that is (relatively)
portable (ie: no kernel mods to speak of) and was wondering if anyone
had pointers/suggestions about this.
It seems to me that Loadable Device Drivers presents one class of
solution (ie: create a virtual disk driiver which pages in and out
disk drives), but I am still going to reach the maximum file size eventually.
(we're talking *big* files here!)
Any other solutions using streams/sockets? nfs? rfs?
Please mail replies to utzoo!yetti!lethe!davidh.
David Haynes
P.S. The initial work will be under Ultrix 1.2 (BSD4.2) but I would
like a portable solution if possible.
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Jerry J. Deroo
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