From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 07:53:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD70616A41F for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:53:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren@3x3x3.org) Received: from yak.fluid.com (yak.fluid.com [63.76.105.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8039343D48 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:53:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren@3x3x3.org) Received: from dsl092-017-115.sfo4.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.17.115]) by yak.fluid.com with esmtpsa (Exim 4.44 #1) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 1ES8hG-0004PT-7R; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:49:14 -0700 Message-ID: <4355FBD4.1080000@3x3x3.org> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:55:00 -0700 From: darren david User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:53:43 -0000 hey all- in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on these figures? It was previously set to the default( 16384 blocksize, 2048 fragment ) without any noticeable perf issues, but i'm just wondering if, well, size matters? ;) thanks, darren david