FreeBSD hardware solution for a database server

[Jim C. Nasby]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:41:29AM +0200, Uzi Klein wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:40:18PM +0200, Uzi Klein wrote:
> >
> >>2 mirrored drives mounted as /
> >>3 RAID 5 drives mounted as /var
> >
> >
> >RAID5 pretty much sucks for databases that do anything more than 1-5%
> >writes.
> 
> would you suggest RAID 0+1 instead?

I'd suggest whichever one is a stripe of mirrors (you don't want a
mirror of 2 stripe sets).
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