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Am Freitag 20 Juli 2007 schrieb Richard Freeman: |
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> Bernhard Auzinger wrote: |
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> > My question is if it makes sence to move these partitions to another |
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> > harddisk? |
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> Others have responded to this well already - one thing I might add is to |
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> check out lvm if you have so many drives. Once you've used it you'll |
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> NEVER go back. Depending on the filesystems you use it is easy to |
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> resize partitions after the fact, and moving them from drive to drive is |
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> a breeze even while they're active. |
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> I'm currently running on 5 logical volumes on top of two RAID-5 md |
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> devices. (With two more mirrored md devices for boot and root). Six |
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> hard drives in total. It took a little work getting to this point, but |
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> I can move stuff around easily while filesystems are online and with |
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> full redundancy on everything but swap (I could run swap on my RAID-5 |
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> lvm partitions, but you take a performance hit there - and I don't care |
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> about a possible crash so much as the loss of lots of data). |
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> Oh, and for /tmp and /var/tmp consider using tmpfs - you don't get |
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> faster access times than virtual ram. You might need to fall back to |
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> your hard drive for very large emerges unless you have 5-10GB of swap... |
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Just for the record. I decided to go LVM2 :). It runs since 10 days and I'm |
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very happy with it. The setup was very quick and easy. For a few seconds I |
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thought of buying a few more harddisks. Not because of the space, just |
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because (vg/lv)extend excites me so much :). That stuff is cool. |
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Regards |
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Bernhard |
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