On 11/7/2014 7:10 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I am not sure, but it sounds like you are proposing that Bacula use a > raw device for storing a Volume. This is possible. There might be a > trivial advantage in terms of performance, but there is no real > advantage or demand to do it.
The advantage is you can pull the disk out and stick a new one in, just like you do with the tape. ... It is, in general, far better to store > Volumes in a filesystem rather than on a raw disk for a number of > reasons. It would even be preferable to dedicate a disk to Bacula and > have a filesystem on it such as XFS rather than use it as a raw device. I agree, however, in the current implementation volumes are files that must reside in a single filesystem (or you need a fake autochanger). If volumes were directories (i.e. mountpoints), we could use multiple removable disks, pull full disk out, stick new one in. > Maybe you can be more precise about what you want. Was that clear enough? Dima ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
