Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: New at server setup (samba). Partitioning question (long) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980924110140.18375Q-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <199809240450.AAA07118@federation.addy.com>
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I would like FreeBSD to boot off disk 1, use Swaps from both drives and > use the "/data" from Disk 2 as the data volume. I want "/data" from > Disk 1 to have the previous day's data. > > In case the first disk died I would like to be able to boot off Disk 2. > > Questions: > -What is the best way to syncronise the volumes. Note that /data will > be going from disk 2 to disk 1, while everything else would go the > other way. rdist. Works fine for disk to disk as well as machine to machine. > -What is a reasonable swap size? Will have 96MB of ram and two 6Gig > drives. Max number of users expected is 10. Is there an easy way to > guesstimate minimun swap spaces? Depends on what folks are running. I've lately been using 4 times physical memory so I'll have breathing room when I double memory size down the road. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, a California corporation dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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