UFS and spreading data
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Fri Aug 3 05:58:49 PDT 2007
AFAIK UFS try to spread data quite evenly on disk to different cylinder
group - for large files, so small files can get it's space near inodes
etc..
but i would like to clear things up:
i will set up say 3 disks with gconcat and make one partition for all data
on it. then i will populate it with all things and use it.
will the data be quite spread on disks, so accesses to different things
could be done in parallel to 3 disks, or will it rather use space on one
disk first, then on second then on third.
i'm asking about it as i prefer gconcat over gstripe as i can add more
disks to gconcat and do growfs then making system EASILY expandable.
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