Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:55:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Joze Volf <joze@ilab.si> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large RAID arrays, partitioning Message-ID: <20080815195308.D6393@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <48A560E1.7080701@ilab.si> References: <48A560E1.7080701@ilab.si>
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> I searched the web again and found a possible solution to my problem. I used > the "newfs -U -O2 /dev/da1" command to create the filesystem directly on the > Is it somehow bad to make a filesystem directly on a storage device such as > disk drive or hardware raid volume? no it is all right! it just means that you don't need partitions. same with winpartitions (fdisk) i never make them, just bsdlabel. hint - with volume that will store only huge files (you've said video server) use little inodes and large blocks. and set -m 0 to make all space available newfs -m 0 -O2 -U -i $[4*1024*1024] -b 65536 -f 8192 /dev/da1 this will use 64K blocks, 8K fragments and one inode per 4MB space
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