Re: RAID and partitions?

1998-11-12 Thread Al.Sutton
r solution. Al "Stephen C. Tweedie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/11/98 18:39:06 To: Osma Ahvenlampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen Tweedie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (bcc: Al Sutton/CHASE) Subject: Re: RAID and partitions? [stuff deleted]

Re: RAID and partitions?

1998-11-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On 07 Nov 1998 16:30:29 +0200, Osma Ahvenlampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Conventional server setup wisdom says to partition /, /usr, /var, > /home and perhaps /var/spool separately. However, how does the RAID-5 > subsystem perform when multiple md devices are configured to span the > same

Re: RAID and partitions?

1998-11-07 Thread Hardware Stuff
From: Osma Ahvenlampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Suppose I had a system equipped with, say, 4x 9GB SCSI disks that I'd like to set up as a fairly generic server system. Conventional server setup wisdom says to partition /, /usr, /var, /home and perhaps /var/spool separately. However, how

RAID and partitions?

1998-11-07 Thread Osma Ahvenlampi
My experience with Linux software RAID up to now has consisted of combining a number of disks to one very large ext2 volume. However, now I'm curious about paritioning and performance characteristics of multiple partitions on a RAID system. Since I don't have a suitable configuration I could run t