From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 24 04:26:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A5016A43A for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 04:26:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com) Received: from angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com (angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com [216.220.107.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CACE143D46 for ; Wed, 24 May 2006 04:26:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com) Received: (qmail 58851 invoked by uid 2003); 24 May 2006 04:26:06 -0000 Received: from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com by angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com by uid 1001 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.65. Clear:RC:1(216.220.116.154):. Processed in 0.049464 secs); 24 May 2006 04:26:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (216.220.116.154) by 0 with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 24 May 2006 04:26:06 -0000 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 00:26:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: state of growfs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 04:26:26 -0000 Hi all, I've gotten somewhat fed up with the SCSI hardware RAID stuff out there, so I'm jumping ship and going with 3Ware SATA for a new PGSQL server. It's fairly important to me to be able to "grow" the filesystem. We'll be starting with 6 or 8 250GB drives and going up to the max of 12 we can hang off of that controller. Aside from all the problems with 2TB+ filesystems, this kind of looks possible. 3Ware claims they can expand a volume, and they also mention that it should work with FreeBSD (but stop short of explaining how). growfs seems to be the thing to use, but I'm seeing very little about it in the archives. Is it reliable? Can it deal with large filesystems? Anyone here have personal experience with it? Thanks, Charles