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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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