[H-GEN] partitioning again

[David Jericho]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs David Jericho <davidj at in4free.com.au>)

On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:02:12AM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)
> > For servers and the like, I'm still fairly religious with respect to 
> > paritioning. The last thing we want is someone DoS'ing the filesystem
> > and stopping a root login.
> 
> So far I've been religios about it too :)  But if ide really is
> dynamically allocating stuff all over the disk then we are kidding ourselves :)

I don't think that is what aj(?) was trying to get at. We can't be sure 
of how the disk places it's data, whether it stripes across platters, or
uses the platters in a linear progression along the logical disk.

This is why some disks have faster average seek times, and others faster
raw throughput figures. With my simple understand of RAID arrays, this would
be a deciding factor in which drives you would finally buy.

The reason why I do it, is so if /var/spool/mail fills up, it won't stop
the web server logging or users from sending email.

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David Jericho
          

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