Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:59:37 -0800 (PST) From: Arone Silimantia <aronesimi@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: one big array, or a boot array and a (less big) array ? Message-ID: <340522.11027.qm@web58614.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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I have a system with 8 drive bays. I have 8 250 GB disks. I would like to just create one giant raid5 array in my adaptec hardware raid controller of size 1.75 TB, and just make my partitions (/, /data, /var) on that big 2 TB array. But I feel like I have heard suggestions on this list before that one should have a separate array just for the boot and userland, and that the big monster array should be separate from that. So instead, should I take two of the 8 disks and make them a mirror, and put boot/userland on there, and then make a raid5 out of the remaining 6 ? Or does it not matter at all ? If one is better, why ? Thanks. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited
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