Need best HD-configuration

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1 total messages Started by Tobias Hennerich Mon, 02 Nov 1992 21:33

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Author: Tobias Hennerich
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 21:33

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We soon get 2 HDs:

	One HP 1Gig, 10.5 ms
	One Quantum 105MB, 17 (?) ms

The NeXT is used most of the time for software-development +
mail, UUCP, news-batching and some indials, only one uucp-site
at the moment.

We want to separate /usr/spool, swap and /user from each other
so that one user or process can't crash the whole system by
filling up the swapfile or any other filesystem.

What is the best configuration for such a system?

Ideas:

1)	2 partitions on HP, 2 on Quantum:
	System + /tmp on part 1 HP, /user on part 2 HP,
	/usr/spool on part 1 Quantum, swap on part 2 Quantum
2)	2 partitions on HP, 1 on Quantum:
	System + /tmp + swap on 1 HP, /user on part 2 HP,
	news and other things (e.g. /NextLibrary/Documentation) on Quantum
3)	System on Quantum ???

One the one hand the HP is much faster than the Quantum,
swap must be fast, so we put swap on the HP -- on the other
hand, for swapping, there must run a lot of programs and these
programs + data are normally loaded from the HP.

What is the best solution? Any suggestions and ideas are welcome.

Tobi
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