From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 5 6:16: 4 2003 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 982B737B405 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 06:16:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF04D43F9B for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 06:16:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C768C2F9; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:16:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0E8D72FDCBC; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:16:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:16:00 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Doug Reynolds Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: questions about space and RAID Message-ID: <20030205141559.GX393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Reynolds , freebsd-questions References: <20030125003253.C04E248463@wastegate.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030125003253.C04E248463@wastegate.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # mav@wastegate.net / 2003-01-24 19:32:55 -0500: > At work, I just bought a new P4 Dell Server with an 80G mirrored IDE > RAID. > > Supposed, it is configured (I haven't had a chance to play with it yet) > to have the drives hardware mirrored. Will I need to setup FreeBSD to > recognize this, aside from just loading the RAID card in the kernel? no. > the other thing is with the 80GIG size. what kind of filesystem > settings should I use? (like block size etc) see newfs(8), and search the archive. i think the defaults will be fine, but that also depends on the data you'll be storing (average file size) -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message