From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 29 9:18: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A08414CFF for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 09:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 19243 invoked from network); 29 May 1999 16:18:03 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO bigfoot.com) (@172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 29 May 1999 16:18:03 -0000 Message-ID: <3750135A.2FF4226A@bigfoot.com> Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:18:34 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christopher J. Michaels" Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: vimum striping vs concatenating. References: <000901bea9e8$50fcbc80$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Christopher J. Michaels" wrote: ... >Can I... > > Have a 15 GB vinum volume that is striped for /usr and then concatenate > the left over on the other drives for maybe, something like /home. Yes, but then you'd run out of room on /home and have to symlink back to /usr or vice-versa. > Does this make sense? Is it even worth the bother, or would I be better > off just concatenating the 3 drives and have one huge /usr or /usr/local? Well, unless speed is really critical, concatenating the drives should give you enough of a speed boost. The ffs file system (man 5 fs) tries to spread files around on a disk anyways, in order to improve speed and decrease FAT file system-style fragmentation. If you combine your disks using concatenation, FreeBSD will probably distribute files among the 3 disks pretty evenly. -- --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message