From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 15 17:39:39 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 E9D3816A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:39:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxc1.crockettint.com (chameleon1.crockettint.com [206.224.72.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71AB843D2D for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:39:39 +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 D904733E68; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:39:38 -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 71465-05; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:39:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: from memnoch (ausc1.crockettint.com [24.153.230.82]) by mxc1.crockettint.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D4B33C83; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:39:36 -0500 (CDT) From: "Edgar Martinez" To: "'Nick Pavlica'" Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:39:41 -0500 Organization: Crockett International MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Thread-Index: AcVB3rl2vJCWuIbwSGuCo9dAEtZstAAAwceQ Message-Id: <20050415173936.A3D4B33C83@mxc1.crockettint.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at crockettint.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: 'Nick Evans' cc: 'Benson Wong' cc: 'Dan Nelson' cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 17:39:40 -0000 I was hoping that 5.4 would be out by the time I started this project.I'll give it a shot to see how it behaves. _____ From: Nick Pavlica [mailto:linicks@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:15 PM To: emartinez@crockettint.com Cc: Dan Nelson; Nick Evans; Benson Wong; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions On 4/15/05, Edgar Martinez wrote: 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... I would help do some testing but I don't have any storage that large at the moment. I curious how 5.4RC2 or > handles very large volumes. Have you already tried fdisk, newfs ? --Nick