Hello
It seems I will be moving on up, and replacing an old P4 (that I
pulled out of the trash and have been using with openbsd as a mail
server and such) with a much newer/fancier computer.
I was reading about softraid, and saw the suggestions about using
softraid and altroot. I understand that raid is not a panacea; but, I
am planning on taking advantage of it.
So, when I look at the FAQ, it says (in crude summary): use fdisk to
make openbsd partitions; then, use disklabel and make partitions for
softraid; then use bioctl to assemble then softraid; then use
disklabel to create partition/s in the created softraid volume.
Seems easy enough.
Now, if there are going to be multiple partitions for the install
(e.g. /home, /var, etc.), my questions is, which is better:
A: Is it better to make "larger" initial partitions for raid
assembly, and then use disklable to create multiple partitions within
that one softraid volume (i.e.: one big softraid volume sd0, broken
up into sd0a, sd0b, sd0c...)?
B: Is it better to make several smaller install partitions, and then
assemble multiple softraid volumes, and then use disklable to place
only one (or two?) system partitions in each softraid volume (i.e.:
multiple softraids like sd0, sd1, sd2..., each with only one partition
like sd0a, sd1a, sd2a...)?
C: Or, does it not matter?
My limited (ok, non-existent) knowledge and/or understanding of disk
I/O makes it impossible for me to being to even guess what may be best.
Thanks
Ted
