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Date:      Fri, 28 May 1999 15:42:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Upgrading to 3.2 and vinum...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905281539390.11808-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <001201bea8ad$65d4b540$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org>

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On Thu, 27 May 1999, Christopher J. Michaels wrote:

> Now, a thought came to me.  Take the 3 disks (6.4 GB, 5 GB, and 10.2 GB)
> and concatenate them with vinum.  This would make for much less of a
> headache since I would have one big /usr, and from what I understand would
> increase drive performance.
> 
> Ok, enough of the background.  My question(s) are, 1 is this a good idea?
> and 2 how would I implement this, wouldn't I have to install a /usr/
> partition before I even had the chance to implement vinum?

Yes, this is a bit of a technicality.  We solved this earlier by having a
dedicated system disk an putting /usr/local/ and /usr/home/ on a CCD
stripe.

> "f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng."

Or system administration, or Perl scripting.  A good script would be to
put the vowels *back* :)

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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