Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 01:19:14 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spreading partitions over multiple drivers Message-ID: <4134B312.8030309@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <20040831133551.GA86660@lori.mine.nu> References: <20040831133551.GA86660@lori.mine.nu>
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Hi, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > Hi tuners, > > apart from using RAID, what would be the best way to spread load over > multiple drives? > It depends very much on the use of the machine. > I was thinking about a partition layout like this: > disk1: /, swap, /var, /usr, /usr/src, /usr/ports > disk2: /tmp, swap, /home, /var/www, /usr/obj (+ ports-workdirs) > You must spread the directories with a high usage evenly over the drives. > And would it make sense (if the disks are large enough) to split /usr > into seperate /usr, /usr/local, /usr/X11R6, etc partitions to reduce > fragmentation? > Fragmentation is not a problem for FreeBSD. Erich
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