Server configuration
Hi, I am building web/database server and am looking for some installation advice. The system will have an IDE boot drive for the OS and a raid for the data files. Is there an advantage to partitioning the raid drive so that the web content is on one partition and the database files are on another or am I better off keeping it as a single partition. System Specs: Dual Opteron 248 2.2 GHz LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI 320-1 Controller Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 - 73 GB - Ultra320 SCSI Seagate 80 GB IDE drive Suse 9.3 Thanks in advance, Mike
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:57:10PM -0400, Michael Long wrote:
I am building web/database server and am looking for some installation advice. The system will have an IDE boot drive for the OS and a raid for the data files. Is
First, I would skip the IDE drive. No point in using RAID if you're just going to have a different single point of failure.
there an advantage to partitioning the raid drive so that the web content is on one partition and the database files are on another or am I better off keeping it as a single partition.
If it's going to be 1 RAID array, IMO, it doesn't really matter. Your problem is going to be disk contention either way. If you were really worried about this, you'd make 2 different arrays. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: DEVICE=EXXON.SYS may mess up your environment
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:57:10PM -0400, Michael Long wrote:
I am building web/database server and am looking for some installation advice. The system will have an IDE boot drive for the OS and a raid for the data files. Is
First, I would skip the IDE drive. No point in using RAID if you're just going to have a different single point of failure.
Point taken on the IDE drive.
there an advantage to partitioning the raid drive so that the web content is on one partition and the database files are on another or am I better off keeping it as a single partition.
If it's going to be 1 RAID array, IMO, it doesn't really matter. Your problem is going to be disk contention either way. If you were really worried about this, you'd make 2 different arrays.
I am planning to use raid 5. Would it be correct to assume disk contention would remain the same no matter the number of partitions?
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