Hi Alex,
This makes sense. We'll won't go for lots of partitions then!
Thanks,
Mark
On 17/07/12 12:32, A.J.Martin wrote:
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> Hi Mark,
> if you create logical partitions you are likely to
> get much poorer overall performance if you have a lot of read/write
> tasks because the heads will need to move a lot more, and the OS
> doesn't know the partitions are on the same physical drives.
>
> I did some benchmarks measuring this with some of our old hardware
> which has 30x1TB HDD's when the ext3/4 limit was 8TB and saw much
> performance with the partitions mapping to independent RAID vols,
> although in the end we used logical partitions to maximize the
> available space.
>
>
> cheers.
> Alex
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Mark Slater wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> At Bham, we're just about to partition our new RAID array and were
>> wondering what the best partitioning system is. At present, our
>> existing arrays are divided into logical drives of 5-10TB but we were
>> wondering if there's any benefit to this or should we just leave them
>> as one large partition (30GB in our case)? My gut feeling was to keep
>> things the same (10Gb partitions) as this *may* make any draining
>> that is required in the future a bit easier. Though if this draining
>> is done on a file basis I guess it doesn't :)
>>
>> Any comment/suggestions are welcome!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
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