Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:47:57 -0700 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Mailing Lists" <lists@imagefoundation.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to configure my new toys... Message-ID: <005801c25dca$c180dce0$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> References: <650D982E-C9B7-11D6-84D2-0003935761AA@imagefoundation.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing Lists" <lists@imagefoundation.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:00 PM > Hi all, > > I was fortunate enough to come into the possession of 2 4 unit rackmount > servers last week, with dual PIII 550's, 512 Mb Ram and 2x9.1 gig UW SCSI > drives each and hot swappable power supplies. A bit of an upgrade over my > current Celeron FreeBSD boxes, which have performed admirably by the way. > > They came with Winblows 2000 installed (blech!), which I have since nuked > and done a basic install of FreeBSD over top of. Now comes the fun part of > deciding exactly what I'm going to do with them. > > Specifically, I'm wondering how to configure/partition the discs. I could > put /usr/home on one drive and everything else on the other but I know I > won't be needing a huge amount of storage on these boxes so that seems > like a bit of a waste. > > I've read about Vinum, but the documentation on it seems to be a little > sketchy. Is it possible to use a striped or mirrored Vinum setup as your > main disc in FreeBSD? or, will I get more speed by just having my > partitions split over the individual drives? How fast would a mirrored > setup be? Comparable to a regular IDE drive? Faster, slower? Have you looked at the handbook? Greg Lehey explains the difference between striping and mirroring and the advantages of each. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum. html A short answer to your question is that any drive except / can be a vinum drive, IIRC and striping is usually the best way to get performance increases. HTH, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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