I need further HDD advice before submitting order.
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Wed May 11 13:19:50 PDT 2005
freebsd.org at donnacha.com wrote:
> On the 200 GB drive
> swap 2.5 GB
> /mirror Same size as the actual size of the 1st disk, 65GB or whatever.
> /spill All the rest
>
> Does that make sense?
If you do want to mirror the boot disk, you want the first partition to be
bootable and resemble the first disk, which means you do not want to put swap
first on the 200GB drive.
Put swap inside of /mirror, instead. No need to create another partition.
> I guess that, as my usage grows, I'll be shifting things over with a
> mind to both disk use balance and space, do you reckon those factors
> will be fairly easy to work out? From your suggestion that I can
> symlink stuff over to /spill with a reasonably fine granularity i.e.
> /var/spool and/or /var/db etc, I get the impression that it will be.
It takes some time and effort to monitor a machine. This is somewhat like
asking a car mechanic "is it fairly easy to replace a transmission?"
> Do symlink cause any sort of performance hit? Or rather, any meaningful
> performance hit?
Within reason, no. Badly written software or exceptional cases exist, but
performance of symlink access does not differ significantly from regular
directory traversal.
--
-Chuck
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