From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 20:59:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDD816A416 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:59:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aronesimi@yahoo.com) Received: from web58614.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58614.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A09E243CBA for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:59:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aronesimi@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 11144 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Nov 2006 20:59:37 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=r/DDaurM5ChjYu9jZ/i2Ne8yna3jtKwa0t6UQkdLOdq886Wf4iHGpMsYGLVqiUpcdHmoI6Hmxzy/SLhzPDCksNNnXChP35nmqBQLy0i2kEA0SvXOkDI71cDzHbdke0KBNt2sbyYJ3LyqoudbkGGSNAXqTvu7K/YhH5BQ0X63H/c=; X-YMail-OSG: ksG_vZUVM1m_Yuv91hX._ZJxHpTBSpsXC1Qvmk3kmHuzGTZ0OL0fxMNM7U3FJYYgS9sT79nEWf.rW1atCeJ2FKQgDcc0Von8TQZw5PdSzJfPYZXLFlZqJg-- Received: from [75.72.230.91] by web58614.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:59:37 PST Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:59:37 -0800 (PST) From: Arone Silimantia To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <340522.11027.qm@web58614.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:23:16 +0000 Subject: one big array, or a boot array and a (less big) array ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:59:57 -0000 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