Re: external log config [was: Million files or so on RAID 5 Partition]

[Simon Matter <simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Ralf G. R. Bergs" schrieb:
> 
> On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 08:11:55 +0100, Simon Matter wrote:
> 
> >I have made several performance tests some time ago. I learnt that,
> >while it's imporant to have external log
> 
> Is it ALWAYS advisable to have an external log (I mean even on hardware 
> RAIDs,)
> or does this only apply to software RAIDs (LVM)?

I think the only reason to have external log is performance. Having all
the logs external makes it complitated on servers with alot of
partitions. So until performance is mission critical or you use software
raid5 (only 5), you should be okay with internal log. I, for example, do
it only on software raid5 volumes because it makes a very big
performance difference there.

-Simon

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ralf
> 
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