<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/19 Brian Candler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com" target="_blank">B.Candler@pobox.com</a>></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As for partitioning: note that you can create separate bricks on the same<br>
disk. e.g. if the RAID arrays are mounted on server1:/data, server2:/data<br>
etc then you can create your web volume out of<br>
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server1:/data/web server2:/data/web ...etc<br>
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and your mail volume out of<br>
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server1:/data/mail server2:/data/mail ...etc<br>
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This doesn't gain you any performance, but gives you a little more<br>
flexibility and manageability (e.g. you can more easily look at I/O usage<br>
patterns separately for the two volumes, or migrate your web volume onto<br>
other bricks without moving your mail volume)<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>just to clarify:</div><div>are bricks like server1:/data/mail and server1:/data/web standard directory on the server?</div><div>Can I create a brick from a single directory and not from the whole mountpoint?</div>
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