Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:35:39 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> To: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vimum striping vs concatenating. Message-ID: <19990529213539.A20306@myhakas.matti.ee> In-Reply-To: <3750135A.2FF4226A@bigfoot.com>; from Ludwig Pummer on Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:18:34AM -0700 References: <000901bea9e8$50fcbc80$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org> <3750135A.2FF4226A@bigfoot.com>
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On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:18:34AM -0700, Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> wrote: > > 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. You seem to know this topic well, so I have question how this spreading is done. I haven't not quite got the point yet what to mean about cylinder groups and so on. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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