Re: spreading partitions over multiple drivers

From: Erich Dollansky (oceanare_at_pacific.net.sg)
Date: 08/31/04

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To: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>

    Hi,

    Geert Hendrickx wrote:
    > Hi tuners,
    >
    > apart from using RAID, what would be the best way to spread load over
    > multiple drives?
    >
    It depends very much on the use of the machine.

    > I was thinking about a partition layout like this:
    > disk1: /, swap, /var, /usr, /usr/src, /usr/ports
    > disk2: /tmp, swap, /home, /var/www, /usr/obj (+ ports-workdirs)
    >
    You must spread the directories with a high usage evenly over the drives.

    > And would it make sense (if the disks are large enough) to split /usr
    > into seperate /usr, /usr/local, /usr/X11R6, etc partitions to reduce
    > fragmentation?
    >
    Fragmentation is not a problem for FreeBSD.

    Erich
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