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In article <1992May27.143455.12839@udel.edu> pyrros@braindamaged.cis.udel.edu (Christos T. Pyrros) writes:

>Novell is pretty good for the most part, but lacks two features that Unix
>has that makes disk management a breeze:  mounting and linking.

>Under Unix, I can TRANSPARENTLY spread data over several physical disks and
>separate volumes.  I don't know of any way to do this with Novell, so now
>we are forced to have a 2 Gig SYS volume.

>We want to be able to do this:

>MAP F:= SERVER/SYS:           (This already works, of course)
>MAP F:\APPS = SERVER/VOL1:
>MAP F:\WINAPPS = SERVER/VOL2:

>and so on.


>Right now, every time we need to add another disk we need to add another
>drive letter, warn all the users, reconfigure all the apps, the menus,
>Windows, OS/2, etc, etc, etc.  It's a real pain.

>How hard can it be to implement?


>Unix-style links would also be nice, but I don't expect them anytime soon.


>Thanks for listening,

>Chris

Netware 3.11 will allow you to spread files across multiple drives.

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