Date: 22 Mar 1999 12:52:29 +0200 From: Osma Ahvenlampi <oa@razorfish.fi> To: Beau James <bjames@cisco.com> Cc: AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, carlos@fisica.ufpr.br Subject: Re: SOFTWARE-RAID-TIPS (was: Adaptec 7890 and RAID portIII RAID controller Linux Support) Message-ID: <m3emmhlrte.fsf@dhcp-144.razorfish.fi> In-Reply-To: Beau James's message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 00:03:00 -0800 (PST)" References: <199903220803.AAA09207@frogger.cisco.com>
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Beau James <bjames@cisco.com> writes: > --> raid it'll cause an unacceptable loss of space... If you have to put > --> /, /usr, /var and /home in the raid, how many disks will you need? > > Why bother breaking these directories into separate partitions, > especially if you are going to put all of them onto a RAID array? Well, there is the issue of different mount options (nosuid,noexec,etc) that you might want to set for some directories. Another issue is system vs data separation and user quotas. > Separate partitions is largely a historical artifact of *nix, based > on the limited size of disks. What is the benefit of perpetuating it? -- Osma Ahvenlampi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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