Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:28:28 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New option for newfs(3) to make life with GEOM easier Message-ID: <20070901182634.A14738@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070901134809.GF54895@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20070901074803.GM85633@comp.chem.msu.su> <3842.1188634387@critter.freebsd.dk> <20070901092310.GO85633@comp.chem.msu.su> <20070901093035.GA18069@harmless.hu> <20070901122913.GE54895@cicely12.cicely.de> <20070901165544.H14738@woozle.rinet.ru> <20070901134809.GF54895@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Bernd Walter wrote: BW> > BW> Sysinstall easily allows you to not partition the last few sectors. BW> > BW> The newfs option is only usefull if you are mirroring at fs level, BW> > BW> which is note quite common for system disks, where you really need BW> > BW> partitions. BW> > BW> > I concur, as all servers (rather entry-level, yeah; and excluding these that BW> > have large storage) we deploy last 2 years have two SATA disks with mirrored BW> > file systems. BW> BW> What is the big win if you mirror all partitions/filesystems and not BW> the whole disk? Time of syncronysation in case of a crash. In our case, usually, large partitions are mostly read and have not to be syncronized. This was originally the recommendation from pjd@ Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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