Insight on partitioning a LAMP Server design issue

[Stephen Goldman]

Thank you All,
Stephen



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Ritter" <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org>
To: "Tom Metro" <tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org>
Cc: "Stephen Goldman" <sgoldman-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org>; "L-blu" <discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: Insight on partitioning a LAMP Server design issue


> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:20:26PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
>> Stephen Goldman wrote:
>> >     The device is a brand new Dell server with:
>> >     /dev/sda    raid one 160 G
>> >     /dev/sdb    raid five 270G
>> ...
>> >     There is a total of six drives :
>> >         Raid one for the OS
>> >         Raid five for the data & db
>>
>> So really you're talking about /dev/md0 .. /dev/md4 for the first set
>> (given your proposed list of partitions), and /dev/md5 for the second.
>
> I don't think so. I think that the hardware RAID is taking
> physical disks 0 and 1 and presenting them as sda, and physical
> disks 2,3,4,5 and presenting them as sdb.
>
> LVM may be a win for him, long term. I generally agree with the
> rest of what you write.
>
> -dsr-
>
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