> As far as I know this was only common when hard drives were smaller. > By combining multiple disks into one filesystem you could effectively > pretend you have a much larger disk, without the complications of > fakeRAID.
There was also the use of read-only media for servers. The old FSA specs categorize files as dynamic or static, and shareable or unshareable. Static files could be put on CD-ROM, or similar WORM drive. Since, for example, usr and opt are both considered static, you can mount them on separate CD-ROMs, and only need to change the first when you update the OS, but be able to add otpional packages by changing the second CD-ROM. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEFILESYSTEM There are also benefits to properly separating high-traffic directories onto different drives (not just different partitions.) I think over time, 'common knowledge' has assumed that translated to different partitions. I've certainly talked to a number of people who didn't seem to get that all the heads on a drive are actually stuck together. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
