Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:19:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> Cc: Jaime Bozza <wheelman@nuc.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Subdividing synthetic disks (was: newfs problems, more information:) Message-ID: <19981022091922.A1219@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <13869.58445.435772.587309@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org>; from Bruce Albrecht on Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 08:40:29AM -0500 References: <13868.3117.390224.376379@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> <003801bdfc74$da58cae0$313d31cc@electron.nuc.net> <13869.12610.899877.506387@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> <19981021180032.X21008@freebie.lemis.com> <13869.58445.435772.587309@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org>
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On Wednesday, 21 October 1998 at 8:40:29 -0500, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > Greg Lehey writes: >>> I never had any problem doing so. Here's my ccd's disklabel entry: >>> >>> (snip) >> >> Why do you want to do this? Would you still find a reason to do it >> with vinum? > > I have a 3 disk CCD with multiple partitions set up because it appears > to improve transfer rates by about 50% (IIRC) over having each > partition on a separate drive. I know you advocate using one very > large partition, but I prefer to keep my partitions small enough so > that I can dump any of them to a 90 meter DAT tape (roughly 2 GB) > without having to deal with tape swap. I have a DAT autoloader, so if > there's an automated way of dealing with EOT with dump, I would > reconsider this decision, but this is the easiest way for me to deal > with backup at this time. Hmm. Yes, that's a valid reason. It wouldn't be with vinum, because you could then just create individual volumes. Greg -- 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-current" in the body of the message
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