On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 20:10, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Put them on seperate discs, or both on the faster of the two drives? Or shall I use the slower disc for the filesystems that get read more often and the faster disc for the filesystems that get written to more often?
Er... I'm getting lost O:-)
Of course, it seems that raid 0 would be faster for everything, but at the same time, it needs some processing time overhead, and it is more vulnerable. Vulnerability is not really a worry, there won't be anything on that's
Sorry, I'm mixing all sorts of stuff together. I have two options: 1. one 7200rpm 2mb cache drive. Normal partitioning sceme, nothing exciting. 2. one 5400rpm 2mb cache 10gb drive, 10gb, one 5400rpm 512kb cache 40gb drive (a fair bit slower). Two sub options: a) 10gb drive and 10gb partition on 40gb drive in stripe mode raid. Linux on the resulting raid device, windows and space for goodies on the remaining non-raid 30gb. Linux wouldn't be using the non-raid part of the drive, so that shouldn't be a factor. b) linux partitions distributed over the two discs. In 2a) my question is: I have identified the two partitions that would be used most heavily - /var and swap. Should I put these both on the faster drive, or on seperate drives. After reading your reply (the part about /usr and /opt, I think those two on different drives would be better. By the way, your idea for /usr and /opt is pretty good - I'll definitely keep that in mind! perticularly valuable or irreplaceable. Just the time lost having to re-install, but that I do in an evening. No big deal. Processing power is another thing, but having done software raid on a P-I 133 with the same class disc, I'm not too worried. The overhead there certainly didn't present any problems, so it shouldn't on this one. Thanks for the replies... Hans