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Date:      Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:56:13 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd_deamon@gmx.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VINUM disk types
Message-ID:  <20030614002613.GO1015@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <28789.1055511658@www27.gmx.net>
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On Friday, 13 June 2003 at 15:40:58 +0200, freebsd_deamon@gmx.net wrote:
> i am building a db server which has 1 IDE (40GB) and 2 SCSI (18GB each) HDD
>
> each disk has 1/2 phys ram swap
>
> the rest of the scsi's is in RAID 1 and holds the data (/data)
>
> the sytem is on the 40 GB IDE
>
> my question now is:
>
> since i am left with approx 2x the size /data can i create two spare
> partitions for the RAID

Sorry, I don't understand the question, but you shouldn't create more
than one Vinum partition per disk.  This in no way restricts you.

> or is it not possible to intermingle SCSI and IDE

Vinum doesn't know about the kind of device.  You can create plexes
with subdisks on both IDE and SCSI (and others).

Greg
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