Chain HDDs / SSDs together to form one filesystem without LVM?
by browny_amiga from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FA88)
Hi,
I have an age-old problem where I'm doing backup and I don't have one hard drive that is large enough for the whole backup.
I want to be able to mount several ones at the same time, to form one large filesystem.
I can do that with LVM, but if one of the devices dies, the whole filesystem gets trashed. I need a system where files are written first on one hard drive, then on the next one and in the case if one hard drive is missing, I can still access the files on the existing one.
Is there such a thing and how is that called? Is that what they call JBOD? (after years I still can't figure out what that is supposed to be, it feels like JBOD means nothing at all, just that you have "a bunch of disks")
I have an age-old problem where I'm doing backup and I don't have one hard drive that is large enough for the whole backup.
I want to be able to mount several ones at the same time, to form one large filesystem.
I can do that with LVM, but if one of the devices dies, the whole filesystem gets trashed. I need a system where files are written first on one hard drive, then on the next one and in the case if one hard drive is missing, I can still access the files on the existing one.
Is there such a thing and how is that called? Is that what they call JBOD? (after years I still can't figure out what that is supposed to be, it feels like JBOD means nothing at all, just that you have "a bunch of disks")