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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: Using multiple drives efficiently Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:14:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5eqj04$cch@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33092F29.632D@cs.ubc.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35995 Markus Meister <meister@cs.ubc.ca> wrote: > I might soon find myself with a system with four IDE drives, two big, > two small. One of the big ones will house (shudder) Win95 and the other > FreeBSD. > Swap space: should I have three swap partitions, one on each drive > except the one that contains FreeBSD? With IDE drives, that's a moot point for drives sitting on a single bus. Unlike SCSI, an IDE drive allocates the entire bus for the time of doing transfers. So, if you think about splitting at all, think about splitting across different controllers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)