From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 12 16:39:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEFF816A401 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:39:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8FC613C4AA for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:39:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from cust16202.lava.net ([64.65.95.74] helo=[192.168.0.100]) by rip.psg.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HGe18-0007sH-1a; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:27:02 +0000 Message-ID: <45D09549.8090807@psg.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:26:49 -1000 From: Randy Bush User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Fromme References: <200702121616.l1CGGBX3048293@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200702121616.l1CGGBX3048293@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comments on newfs raw disk ? Safe ? (7 terabyte array) X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:39:22 -0000 this thread has been great. but i suspect it would be greatly appreciated if the handbook had a page "How to format and use multi-terabyte drives, facts, trade-offs, and recipies." i am about to do this (5TB), have been gathering info, and feel a appropriately confused. randy