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Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:39:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: Node setup - recommended hardware
From: Eric tamme <etamme@gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Anthony Ikeda
<anthony.ikeda.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just want to ask, when setting up nodes in a Node ring is it worthwhile
> using a 2 partition setup? i.e. Cassandra on the Primary, data directories
> etc on the second partition or does it really not make a difference?
> Anthony
>


I don't think it makes much difference from a performance perspective
at all.  You might want to create a separate LVM for your data, or
entire /var