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  3. August 2009

Re: Explaining single level store to non i people

Nathan Andelin wrote:
Under IBM i, you just pop an additional drive into the bay and the capacity of the DBMS and every file system is automatically extended, no matter where they may have resided physically. In countless cases, that has been worth its weight in gold.

There is a way to spread filesystems over multiple disks/partitions, for Linux anyway. The software is called LVM, and my understanding is that it addresses this issue quite well.

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