Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:41:30 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org> To: Uzi Klein <uzi@bmby.com> Cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org, jmc <jcagle@gmail.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD hardware solution for a database server Message-ID: <20050823144129.GE43820@decibel.org> In-Reply-To: <430AD329.4090601@bmby.com> References: <040f01c5a4b9$f5d2dff0$0700a8c0@uzi> <6863f0c905081906061290c642@mail.gmail.com> <43088442.7000704@bmby.com> <20050823011954.GM17203@decibel.org> <430AD329.4090601@bmby.com>
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:41:29AM +0200, Uzi Klein wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:40:18PM +0200, Uzi Klein wrote: > > > >>2 mirrored drives mounted as / > >>3 RAID 5 drives mounted as /var > > > > > >RAID5 pretty much sucks for databases that do anything more than 1-5% > >writes. > > would you suggest RAID 0+1 instead? I'd suggest whichever one is a stripe of mirrors (you don't want a mirror of 2 stripe sets). -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@decibel.org Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"
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