I've finally figured out how to compile unraid 5.14b into full slackware 13.1 and now I'm ready to take on the world! Okay, maybe not the world, maybe just having a cache + OS drive combination. I've read http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3899.0. It's clear that the partition used for the cache drive needs to be the first partition and lilo needs to be installed to the root partition.
My main question about partition sizing. How big should the cache partition be compared to the OS partition? My current array looks like this:
OS: 1.5 TB
Parity: 2 TB
Drive 1: 1.5 TB
Drive 2: 1.5 TB
Drive 3: 1.5 TB
I'll be using the OS drive for OS+cache.
Current plan is to:
/dev/sda1 1 TB cache
/dev/sda2 2 GB swap
/dev/sda3 ~450 GB for OS.
Is that too much for the OS partition? I'm planning on using a webserver, torrents, SABnzbd, Couch Potato, and Sick Beard. Can/should the data for those run in the cache partition or in the OS partition?
Any suggestions would be great!
Thanks,
Amerzel