Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 21:44:54 -0600 From: Gabor Kincses <gabor@acm.org> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CCD Message-ID: <3A04D7B6.77E2AFEB@acm.org> References: <3A038A39.D646F2F2@acm.org> <E13rudV-0001St-00@rip.psg.com>
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Randy Bush wrote: > > i was dealing with a more complex situation. i wanted /usr. /var, etc. on > ccd. > > so what i finally did was > o install non-ccd with one of the swap partitions as /usr > o build and install a ccd kernel > o config /etc/ccd.conf etc > o reboot ccd enabled but single user > o run ccdconfig -C, and mount the partitions > o tar the /usr, /var, ... into the new places > o fix fstab > o reboot > > don't know what i would do if a swap partition was not big enough to hold > enough of /usr to install and build kernels. An old disk lying around might do the trick. I actually had some extra space, since the two disks are of different size, which is where the original /usr was/is. I just tar'd and moved the directories in /usr to /usr2 (the ccd partition) and create symlinks. What sort of performance gain did you see (particularly random reads)? -- Gabor Kincses (gabor@acm.org) Running FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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