On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:01:23PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.10.10 at 09:40, H du Plooy wrote:
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.
Both together on a diferent disk than the rest of the system, I think, and probably on the faster disk, if that is where most of your write operations will be.
By the way, your idea for /usr and /opt is pretty good - I'll definitely keep that in mind!
Thanks, but it is not mine: I read it on the SuSE manual years ago :-)
Ah, by the way: it is possible to have /usr on a separate partition, but I found that sometimes -- when init sequence detects errors on the disk and doesn't mount anything but "/" -- that some programs fail to run. If those programs include things like fsck, you are hoosed and need the rescue CD. This happened to me.
Just to clarify, I meant having '/opt' in a partition on a diferent HD than the partition where directory '/usr' resides (on its own, or as part of '/usr').
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 perticularly valuable or irreplaceable. Just the time lost having to re-install, but that I do in an evening. No big deal.
Have a good backup, or an image.
How do you folks recommend getting "an image" of an entire system for quick and easy restore?
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...