From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 12 16:53:28 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 5FB1D16A406 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:53:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E128013C46B for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:53:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (tgbshk@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l1CGrLS5055966; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:53:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id l1CGrLmJ055965; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:53:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <200702121653.l1CGrLmJ055965@lurza.secnetix.de> To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:53:21 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <45D09549.8090807@psg.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:53:26 +0100 (CET) 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 16:53:28 -0000 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 -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, USt-Id: DE204219783 Any opinions expressed in this message are personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix GmbH & Co KG in any way. FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "In My Egoistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton