On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 16:18, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-07-21T19:52:06Z, "David Teague" <teague@jackson.main.nc.us> writes: > > > Why do you say this? As long as you have swap on a different disk, things > > should be OK. > > I'm mainly used to FreeBSD performance tuning vs. Linux. FreeBSD > interleaves swap space across every configured swap partition, so putting a > bit of swap on *all* of your drives (at least, the quicker ones) is a good > thing. I've never looked at Linux to see if that's the case. Linux does interleave access if the swap partitiona have the same priority. Per default, swap is added with decreasing priority (increasing numbers), so no balancing takes place. > > > Anyhow why should I never replace 2 HDs by 1? > > I wouldn't have used the word "never". Still, unless the old drive is very > much slower than the new one, you may be better off adding spindles rather > than replacing them. I've been known to buy two smaller drives rather than > one large one for the specific purpose of dividing the load across the > drives. Which is almost no issue on most single-user systems. Two disks also have the advantage, that simple backups can be made without shuffling external media - just copy /home to the 2nd drive regularly. (Of course, this does not protect from your house burning down. But in most cases it does suffice.) cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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