From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 1:16:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059BD37B635 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EA92CE5F; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:16:25 +0200 (EET) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D8CAA1C568B; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:16:23 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:16:23 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: James Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID/config questions Message-ID: <20000314111623.A21619@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <38c48132.1056418179@mail.sentex.net> <38c48132.1056418179@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000310075733.03768210@mail.sentex.net> <3.0.5.32.20000313110217.01557100@marble.sentex.ca> <3.0.5.32.20000313112105.0159f6c0@marble.sentex.ca> <38CD9C1C.762F1A26@icorp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <38CD9C1C.762F1A26@icorp.net>; from James on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 07:55:41PM -0600 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 07:55:41PM -0600, James wrote: > Let me ask for your advice (and anyone else who may have comments). If under > RAID 5, write operations are slower, and in a web server environment, with > logging you have as many write operations as read operations, I'm wondering if > it might be prudent to configure the server to write log files to a non-RAID > drive and run all the other systems from a RAID 5 array? Like 3 drives in a > RAID 5 configuration, with a fourth drive non-RAID, holding non-critical > logging data. How practical is this? Can a single RAID controller handle this > type of set up? Can the RAID array be bootable? You should put swap outside of raid as well. I've never used raid-5 but I think it's quite critical to have swap outside in this particular case. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message