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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.


 
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