From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 16 14:48:16 2002 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 011A437B400 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:48:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (207-173-227-236.bras01.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [207.173.227.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6261143E72 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from TAGALONG (unknown [165.107.42.110]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id ED065EE545; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:48:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <005801c25dca$c180dce0$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "Mailing Lists" , References: <650D982E-C9B7-11D6-84D2-0003935761AA@imagefoundation.com> Subject: Re: How to configure my new toys... Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:47:57 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing Lists" To: Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:00 PM > Hi all, > > I was fortunate enough to come into the possession of 2 4 unit rackmount > servers last week, with dual PIII 550's, 512 Mb Ram and 2x9.1 gig UW SCSI > drives each and hot swappable power supplies. A bit of an upgrade over my > current Celeron FreeBSD boxes, which have performed admirably by the way. > > They came with Winblows 2000 installed (blech!), which I have since nuked > and done a basic install of FreeBSD over top of. Now comes the fun part of > deciding exactly what I'm going to do with them. > > Specifically, I'm wondering how to configure/partition the discs. I could > put /usr/home on one drive and everything else on the other but I know I > won't be needing a huge amount of storage on these boxes so that seems > like a bit of a waste. > > I've read about Vinum, but the documentation on it seems to be a little > sketchy. Is it possible to use a striped or mirrored Vinum setup as your > main disc in FreeBSD? or, will I get more speed by just having my > partitions split over the individual drives? How fast would a mirrored > setup be? Comparable to a regular IDE drive? Faster, slower? Have you looked at the handbook? Greg Lehey explains the difference between striping and mirroring and the advantages of each. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum. html A short answer to your question is that any drive except / can be a vinum drive, IIRC and striping is usually the best way to get performance increases. HTH, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message