Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:18:34 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: vimum striping vs concatenating. Message-ID: <3750135A.2FF4226A@bigfoot.com> References: <000901bea9e8$50fcbc80$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org>
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"Christopher J. Michaels" wrote: ... >Can I... > > Have a 15 GB vinum volume that is striped for /usr and then concatenate > the left over on the other drives for maybe, something like /home. Yes, but then you'd run out of room on /home and have to symlink back to /usr or vice-versa. > Does this make sense? Is it even worth the bother, or would I be better > off just concatenating the 3 drives and have one huge /usr or /usr/local? Well, unless speed is really critical, concatenating the drives should give you enough of a speed boost. The ffs file system (man 5 fs) tries to spread files around on a disk anyways, in order to improve speed and decrease FAT file system-style fragmentation. If you combine your disks using concatenation, FreeBSD will probably distribute files among the 3 disks pretty evenly. -- --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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