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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


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