From owner-aic7xxx Mon Mar 22 2:46:36 1999 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from safir.razorfish.fi (unknown [195.197.152.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2252414CFC for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 02:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oa@spray.fi) Received: (qmail 25302 invoked from network); 22 Mar 1999 10:52:30 -0000 Received: from 144.dhcp.razorfish.fi (HELO dhcp-144.razorfish.fi) (oa@195.197.152.144) by safir.razorfish.fi with SMTP; 22 Mar 1999 10:52:30 -0000 To: Beau James Cc: AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, carlos@fisica.ufpr.br Subject: Re: SOFTWARE-RAID-TIPS (was: Adaptec 7890 and RAID portIII RAID controller Linux Support) References: <199903220803.AAA09207@frogger.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Osma Ahvenlampi Date: 22 Mar 1999 12:52:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: Beau James's message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 00:03:00 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.44/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Beau James 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