From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 22 19: 8:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41B51572B for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA29810; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:38:21 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA33845; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:38:19 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:38:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Roy Bettle Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Software RAID? Message-ID: <19990723113819.G84734@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3797544C.2D8295D4@criterion-group.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <3797544C.2D8295D4@criterion-group.com>; from Roy Bettle on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:26:36AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 22 July 1999 at 10:26:36 -0700, Roy Bettle wrote: > First of all, I know there's a performance hit when you set something > like this up, I don't follow what "this" is, but I don't see any obvious performance hit apart from what I mention below. > but I'm testing on a 2, +/- 1.2GB IDE drives system right now as > follows: > > wd0 / 128MB > wd0 /swap 512MB > wd0 /var 557MB > wd1 /usr 1033MB You should put wd1 on the secondary controller. It'll improve performance. > I would really prefer to add the space taken up by /var to /usr and > provide a virtual pointer, If you mean a symlink, I just posted a reply on the subject to this list. > but don't know how to implement software RAID or if I even can with > FreeBSD. I don't know what this has to do with software RAID, but if that's what you want, take a look at vinum(8), vinum(4) and http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message