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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:53:21 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: comments on newfs raw disk ?  Safe ? (7 terabyte array)
Message-ID:  <200702121653.l1CGrLmJ055965@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <45D09549.8090807@psg.com>

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Randy Bush wrote:
 > 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."

That would indeed be great.  Unfortunately I have other
battle fields right now (fighting against sysinstall and
loader code, among other things), so I have zero time to
write a Handbook chapter from scratch.  I'm also probably
not that authoritative; there are people who are more
knowledgable about UFS/UFS2.

However, that whole issue -- formatting multi-TB FS -- is
very much a moving target, especially right now that the
new gjournal code is entering the arena.  It will change
quite a lot of things, and the recommandations will be
different.  You'll probably have to rewrite half of the
chapter.

With that in mind, maybe it makes more sense to wait a
little bit until gjournal has matured some more an has
officially hit the RELENG_6 branch.  I don't think it will
take long; the code has already proven quite stable.

Best regards
   Oliver

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