[Gllug] Disc partitions

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 12 Oct, Nix wrote:
> 
> On 12 Oct 2008, dylan at dylan.me.uk verbalised:
> > There is also RAID and LVM of course.
> 
> I'd be inclined to say that if you have several drives such that you can
> group them into N sets of roughly similar size where each set doesn't
> slow the others down when you access it, RAID-5/6 it instantly. With
> old drives, reliability is almost certainly going to be more important
> than storage space (those drives *will* die one day, and if you wanted
> storage space you wouldn't be using drives that old).
> 

   One possible use would be as a security camera system, with a large SCSI
e2fs drive storing pictures and one or two much smaller drives with the
rest, including /usr and /var/log. 

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