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Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I'm trying to setup a development server which hosts a number of virtual hosts.</div><div>and i need your advice with the following:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>1. What's the best Filesystem to be used with an apache server?</div></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>Relevant info: </div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>i. Mysql DB size' 1 GB</div><div>ii. Code directory size' 8 GB (Max file size is 5 KB)</div></blockquote></blockquote>2. What's the best file structure to maximize seek time from drives?</blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">Relevant info:</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">i. 2 X 1 TB SATAII 64MB blk Edition Int HDD</blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">ii. 1 X 320GB </blockquote><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>General info:<div><br></div><div><ul><li>I have an additional directory which hosts all my code under /Development . this directory has a size of almost 300 GB.</li><li>14 Virtual Hosts would be created on the server under /etc/httpd/VHosts/</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>I was thinking of the following structure:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><ol><li>Drive A (320 GB): OS </li><li>Drive B (1 TB): Mysql + /home</li><li>Drive C (1 TB): /development + /opt</li></ol><div><br></div></div></blockquote>Would this work? i followed no guidelines with the above setup, it's just using my own logic. so i'd appreciate an expert advice with this.<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>--Roland</div> </body>
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