Matthew Marlowe wrote: > fyi, as someone who has played around quite a bit with most of the > ways to configure a home workstation, I find the best config currently > is: > > Dedicated Fast Enterprise 2TB drive -> /, swap, and /boot (ext4) > Six 2TB Reliable SATA Drives in RAID10 -> /home (ext4 with appropriate > chunksize/etc) > Two 2TB Reliable SATA Drives in LVM VG -> /archive, other lvm volumes > I can afford to lose and may need to change sizes for. > > No worrying about any bootup complications/initrd or seperate /usr or > /var on workstation, all the important personal data is on reliable > storage, lots of free space for big projects. Backups are on separate > disks from data. > Ext4 over RAID seem happier without lvm. Maybe a few years down the > road btrfs will be complete, I'll be able to switch to that. > > Only complications of above is a) careful monitoring of boot disk, b) > with so many drives, chassis needs good air flow/power, and c) unless > /tmp or /var put on lvm, all gentoo compiles are limited by i/o of > boot disk (this isn't a problem for me now, but perhaps when I upgrade > to faster cpus with more cores..). >
That would work IF I could afford all those drives. Right now, I have three and one of them was given to me by another Gentoo user. I did find a security system that has a 500Gb drive that I may use. Videos on a drive made for videos should work fine. lol Also, I have a Cooler Master case with lots of fans, large ones too. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
