From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 17:26:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA3037B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15CE43FCB for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 00BD851285; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:56:13 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:56:13 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: freebsd_deamon@gmx.net Message-ID: <20030614002613.GO1015@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <28789.1055511658@www27.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nljfjKcp9HDtPSOP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <28789.1055511658@www27.gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VINUM disk types X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 00:26:20 -0000 --nljfjKcp9HDtPSOP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --nljfjKcp9HDtPSOP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+6mulIubykFB6QiMRAv7wAJ96gQL//0VEf3aK9Tvi5IwrX905dwCeKsNf 7GNnYkmM8uEKLQVqBRTpSxI= =xTk3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nljfjKcp9HDtPSOP--