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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Current thoughts on filesystem partitioning?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Current thoughts on filesystem partitioning?
  • From: "Dan Langille" <dan [ at ] langille [ dot ] org>
  • Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:10:26 -0400
On 7 Aug 2005 at 11:53, Phil Orpen wrote:

> On  7-Aug-2005 01:10 Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> | In general, I would say... 
> | 
> |  /      for all your OS, so ~5G
> |  /home  for user data, depends, 5-10G
> |  /var   for server data and logs, 5-10G
> 
> | You mentioned software RAID... don't use RAID5.  Spend the $50 to get
> | another 40G drive and do RAID1 (mirror).
> 
> Re: raid1 v.s. raid5... agreed.   go for simplicity before performance.
> Besides, unless you have GigE or faster network on that server, you
> won't gain much performance from raid5.

I have a RAID-5 box as my main development server.  It's not there 
for performance.  It's there for reliability.  I was given an Adaptec 
2400A which user IDE drives.  So far, it's been great.

I also use RAID-1 on my workstation.  It's there so a single disk 
failure doesn't require a full restore.
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