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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 11:38:19 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Roy Bettle <rbettle@criterion-group.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Software RAID?
Message-ID:  <19990723113819.G84734@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3797544C.2D8295D4@criterion-group.com>; from Roy Bettle on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:26:36AM -0700
References:  <3797544C.2D8295D4@criterion-group.com>

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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
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