From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 20 09:17:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B749916A469 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:17:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757C213C45D for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:17:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1085937wxd for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:17:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jqrMzUQ9e3Mvn88iHLAZJ8EeHXKKg2gE4eN03x/oyiwqe4BNAv+7QSIG7LGHwL1Hl01ycPkJQgvKsXLcONWFQguMP+gmmw6eEc1sWTuhw0roNXw//7loutN0T7cpNOHpaoG2wGLU61RFf203XltOXAgs1C/SgwRbde26IfHWbp4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KKyh0wUaQMfVr6fp7jDLNWcM0oFYP6WD6i4q70PnZKfqQDG3F3TVMzpN/OOxE8p5yLMjkIT3lbBUqUyQExP00tt2PfUqON/lNc9i60HOzt6kRqwkLLRSHKpYpC6sOZimadRzq6rtKESUx+jVm/Pm22QPTwd+JgKQOMPdNvySy18= Received: by 10.70.65.8 with SMTP id n8mr10346763wxa.1187601464551; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.109.20 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:17:44 +0200 From: "Claus Guttesen" To: "Vivek Khera" In-Reply-To: <3A05E0E7-403E-4203-9B9B-AC78549D4E17@khera.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <31BB09D7-B58A-47AC-8DD1-6BB8141170D8@khera.org> <3A05E0E7-403E-4203-9B9B-AC78549D4E17@khera.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: large RAID volume partition strategy X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:17:45 -0000 > > If you want to avoid the long fsck-times your remaining options are a > > journaling filesystem or zfs, either requires an upgrade from freebsd > > 6.2. I have used zfs and had a serverstop due to powerutage in out > > area. Our zfs-samba-server came up fine with no data corruption. So I > > will suggest freebsd 7.0 with zfs. > > But, if I don't go with zfs, which would be a better way to slice the > space up: RAID volumes exported as individual disks to freebsd, or > one RAID volume divided into multiple logical partitions with disklabel? If you want to place data and the transaction-log on different partitions you want to be shure they reside on different physical disks so you probably want option 1. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare