Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:38:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Roy Bettle <rbettle@criterion-group.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Software RAID? Message-ID: <19990723113819.G84734@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3797544C.2D8295D4@criterion-group.com>; from Roy Bettle on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:26:36AM -0700 References: <3797544C.2D8295D4@criterion-group.com>
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On Thursday, 22 July 1999 at 10:26:36 -0700, Roy Bettle wrote: > First of all, I know there's a performance hit when you set something > like this up, I don't follow what "this" is, but I don't see any obvious performance hit apart from what I mention below. > but I'm testing on a 2, +/- 1.2GB IDE drives system right now as > follows: > > wd0 / 128MB > wd0 /swap 512MB > wd0 /var 557MB > wd1 /usr 1033MB You should put wd1 on the secondary controller. It'll improve performance. > I would really prefer to add the space taken up by /var to /usr and > provide a virtual pointer, If you mean a symlink, I just posted a reply on the subject to this list. > but don't know how to implement software RAID or if I even can with > FreeBSD. I don't know what this has to do with software RAID, but if that's what you want, take a look at vinum(8), vinum(4) and http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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