Re: striping, etc.
>>Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
>wow, that was fast :)
>
>I've downloaded it, and read the docs. I compiled the kernel with
>support for these devices.
>
>They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's
>server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first controller, and
>use the other pair as /usr on the second interface. /usr will be NFS
>exported. Or would I be better off putting the two /usr drives on
>separate controllers?
>
>also, would I be better off combining all three? and finally, will
>linear or raid0 give be better performance on ide drives (i know the
>answer is raid0 on scsi).
Put RAIDed disks on one controller and / and swap on another. Also,
IIRC if disks on one controller support different modes, contoller will
use the [s]lowest for both. So, if your disks aren't identical you might
want to run a few tests on them (hdparm) first.
Dimitri
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