At 13.30 31/03/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Simone Sestini wrote:
>
> > I'm installing  a CODA farm for a mail project..
> > Today i'm configuring the SCM Server and i did that kind of partition.
> >
> >     Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sda1             1        64    514048+  82  Linux swap
> > /dev/sda2   *        65      1339  10241437+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda3          1340      8924  60926512+   5  Extended
> > /dev/sda5          1340      1341     16033+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda6          1342      1382    329301   83  Linux
> > /dev/sda7          1383      1510   1028128+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda8          1511      2530   8193118+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda9          2531      3550   8193118+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda10         3551      4570   8193118+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda11         4571      5590   8193118+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda12         5591      6610   8193118+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda13         6611      7630   8193118+  83  Linux
> > /dev/sda14         7631      8650   8193118+  83  Linux
> >
> > /dev/sda5 is the RVM Log and /dev/sda6 is the RVM MetaData
> >
> >  From /dev/sda8 to /dev/sda14 are all Reiserfs3 that i mount /vicepa
> > /vicepb etc..
>
>Hello Simone,
>
>as mailfiles tend to be rather small, your data space (/vicep*)
>could not be used more than for a small part, as the metadata storage
>(/dev/sda6) will be filled up a lot sooner.


How much big should be the metadata area for menage all that partition ? or 
i need to do various partitions of metadata ?
I did that division because over all the FAQ ppls say to haven't more then 
8GB for vicepa or vicepb etc..
Isent' that correct ?



>You need to set up log/metadata per server process and you will need
>multiple server processes. Swap space has to be able to contain all
>metadata pieces together, too.


How can i do that clearly ?



> > Is correct use the same device for storage LOG , Metadata and /vice ? or
> > this reduce the performance ?
>
>You mean probably /vicep* not /vice?


Yes .. i wrote bad..

>Yes, it would be better to keep them separately from rvm, but it is
>unclear for me how much you would win.


Ok.. i can keep an IDE ATA133 drive for menage all that things...


>Best regards,
>--
>Ivan

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