[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Span filesystem across both SD cards?

[From: Jon Smirl]

On 2/1/07, Neil MacLeod <gmane at nmacleod.com> wrote:
> This may be a crazy idea, but what possibilities exist to span a single filesystem across the two SD cards, thus presenting a single filesystem to the N800?
>
> I can imagine one day wanting to put a 500Mb media file onto the N800, and having 300Mb free on each SD card would mean the N800 doesn't have enough contiguous space to store the file.
>
> Would it be possible to mount partitions on the SD-card in such a way that the N800 could make the space available as one single filesystem partition?

The ability already exists in Linux. You need to turn on device mapper
in your kernel and then use LVM2 or  EVMS.

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Jon Smirl
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