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Optimum partition arrangement with SCSI and IDE disks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mr M S Aitchison)
Tue Jan 13 16:28:47 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:41:28 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Mr M S Aitchison <physmsa@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
In-reply-to: <01bd2043$fa2a0f40$0100007f@localhost>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
I traditionally partition a disk for Linux with the swap partition in
between the system files (/,/usr, etc) partition and the users' data
area to minimise head movement. If I have several disks I like to put
the swap area roughly in the middle of the fastest least-used disk.
But I don't know if this is still a good strategy with modern disks,
and I especially would like to know if I should adopt a different strategy
if I have a mixture of SCSI and IDE disks. For example: is swap on a
modern fast IDE a good idea or will be inefficient? Is the quality of
the SCSI disks/controller (e.g. tagged queue) going to change the optimum
strategy??
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