How about one large raid, and two partitions to serve each purpose?
Being so limited in HW, youre either going to take a _huuuuuge_ performance hit with only 2 disks per raid (unless Raid0), or an availability hit with everything on one RAID set. But..considering the costs of adding RAID to a server..take a peek here for a high(er) perfomance RAID solution..if Fbsd had an iscsi layer like linux has had for...5yrs or so..this would be a slam dunk as you can still serve it as block data. If that cant help you, it might help the next guy with only a few K's to spend on large disks and raid controllers. On 1/25/07, Milo Hyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 25, 2007, at 12:15, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Still, you also ought to consider that a 3-disk RAID-5 > configuration is very much not ideal from either an efficiency or > performance standpoint-- you want more like 5 or 6 drives being > used, in which case your performance numbers ought to increase > some. This is also somewhat true of the 4-disk RAID-10 config; > using 6 or all 8 drives would likely improve performance compared > with striping against only two disks. Unfortunately, I'm a bit limited in terms of equipment and application requirements. For starters, the app specs currently call for two arrays: one for general file-serving and databases, and the other for backups. Due to limited hardware I'm to run both on the same controller. Far from ideal, I know, but it's what I have. Second, I need to keep at least one drive as a hot-spare. Thus, I have seven drives that I somehow need to partition into two groups and maximize performance without sacrificing reliability. Lastly, the RAID controller does not permit more than two drives in a RAID-1 set. Any suggestions? -- Milo Hyson CyberLife Labs _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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