Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks [SOLVED]

2007-10-24 Thread Morten Torstensen
Anup Shukla wrote: Still, given the suggestion, i will surely try to reduce the number of slices. I would make one system LUN at say 20GB and one data LUN with the rest of the RADI5 space. On the system LUN I would make a /boot filesystem and a LVM partition with at least a / filesystem and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks [SOLVED]

2007-10-24 Thread Anup Shukla
Peter Kjellstrom wrote: Reconsider the "multiple 500G" part. Slicing a raid-set up typically has bad performance effects (how bad depends on the controller). This results from that linux now considers several parts of your one raidset as devices to be scheduled independently. Ok, looks li

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks [SOLVED]

2007-10-23 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Anup Shukla wrote: ... > Dell PERC 5/i "does" have an option to create multiple LUNs. > So, i have been quite moronic in not trying to apply logic initially. > As for now, i am creating a small "system" disk, > and multiple 500G "data" disks. Reconsider the "multiple

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks [SOLVED]

2007-10-23 Thread Christopher Chan
So, i have been quite moronic in not trying to apply logic initially. Please leave that term for those who really deserve it. As for not trying perhaps the lazy label is more suitable :-P ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cento

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks [SOLVED]

2007-10-23 Thread Anup Shukla
Anup Shukla wrote: Hi All, Sorry if this has been answered many times. But i have been going through a lot of pages (via google search). The more i search, the more its confusing me. I have a server with 6 (750G each) SATA disks with H/W Raid 5. I plan to allocate the space as follows swap 8G