On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 11:16 -0700, Steve Crawford wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> >>> You're likely better off (performance-wise) putting it on the same disk
> >>> as the database itself if that one has better RAID, for example.
> >> I'm thinking along the lines of since nothing much writes to the OS
> >> Disk, I should(keyword) be safe.
> >
> > Unless it's *always* in the cache (not so likely), reads will also move
> > the heads...
>
> And if you aren't mounted noatime, reads will also cause a write.
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/md0 /raid1_array ext3 noatime,data=writeback 1 1
Yep..yep..
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