From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 15 17:36:53 2005 Return-Path: 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 E3B6B16A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:36:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxc1.crockettint.com (chameleon1.crockettint.com [206.224.72.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8ECB43D46 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:36:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from emartinez@crockettint.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.crockettint.com [127.0.0.1]) by mxc1.crockettint.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0373633C83; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:36:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mxc1.crockettint.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mxc1.crockettint.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 71256-09; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:36:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: from memnoch (ausc1.crockettint.com [24.153.230.82]) by mxc1.crockettint.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCED33D93; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:36:50 -0500 (CDT) From: "Edgar Martinez" To: "'Dan Nelson'" Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:36:55 -0500 Organization: Crockett International MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: <20050415171435.GP4842@dan.emsphone.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Thread-Index: AcVB3puoTdfIlcBFQVGwPUAYJrOOwwAAuIww Message-Id: <20050415173650.3DCED33D93@mxc1.crockettint.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at crockettint.com cc: 'Nick Evans' cc: 'Benson Wong' cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: 'Nick Pavlica' Subject: RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: emartinez@crockettint.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:36:54 -0000 I don't think I have ever done that...or even considered that was possible...The controller does support growing the array...Guess I'll give it a shot starting with 2TB and then grow it in increments to see how it behaves...any suggestions for newfs'in the device directly?? -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@allantgroup.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:15 PM To: Edgar Martinez Cc: 'Nick Evans'; 'Benson Wong'; 'Nick Pavlica'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions In the last episode (Apr 15), Edgar Martinez said: > OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if > you would care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone > wants me to do some experiments or test something, let me know...I > for one welcome any attempts at pushing any limits or trying new > things... If your array is just going to used for one large filesystem, you can skip any partitioning steps and newfs the base device directly. then if you decide to grow the array (and if your controller supports nondestructive resizing), you can use growfs to expand the filesystem without the extra step of manually adjusting a partition table. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com