Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:16:23 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> To: James <mlistbsd@icorp.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID/config questions Message-ID: <20000314111623.A21619@myhakas.matti.ee> In-Reply-To: <38CD9C1C.762F1A26@icorp.net>; from James on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 07:55:41PM -0600 References: <38c48132.1056418179@mail.sentex.net> <MAIL38C45697.D736070F@icorp.net> <38c48132.1056418179@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000310075733.03768210@mail.sentex.net> <3.0.5.32.20000313110217.01557100@marble.sentex.ca> <3.0.5.32.20000313112105.0159f6c0@marble.sentex.ca> <38CD9C1C.762F1A26@icorp.net>
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 07:55:41PM -0600, James <mlistbsd@icorp.net> wrote: > Let me ask for your advice (and anyone else who may have comments). If under > RAID 5, write operations are slower, and in a web server environment, with > logging you have as many write operations as read operations, I'm wondering if > it might be prudent to configure the server to write log files to a non-RAID > drive and run all the other systems from a RAID 5 array? Like 3 drives in a > RAID 5 configuration, with a fourth drive non-RAID, holding non-critical > logging data. How practical is this? Can a single RAID controller handle this > type of set up? Can the RAID array be bootable? You should put swap outside of raid as well. I've never used raid-5 but I think it's quite critical to have swap outside in this particular case. -- 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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