Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:32:07 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Arone Silimantia <aronesimi@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: quotas safe on >2 TB filesystems in 6.1-RELEASE ? Message-ID: <4587E9D7.9050709@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20061218183622.67555.qmail@web58612.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <20061218183622.67555.qmail@web58612.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On 12/18/06 12:36, Arone Silimantia wrote: > I am planning on building a 6.1-RELEASE system with a > boot array smaller than 2 TB (and thus not interesting > or dangerous in any way - also sysinstall compatible). > > But then after installation I am going to use CLI > tools (all bigdisk safe, right ?) to partition and > newfs a 9 TB array. If you really need to partition it, then do so, however I believe you'll get better performance on a RAID array if you simply newfs the raw disk (/dev/daX) instead of adding slices and such on it. Also, I highly recommend using GJOURNAL on this disk. What I do is create a small (4GB) fast LUN (RAID 10 or 0+1 is good) and use it as my journal device, and then create the remaining space as another LUN for the data, and use GJOURNAL on top. GJOURNAL is probably still considered slightly experimental, but I have over 25Tb (in a few different systems, under different loads), and have been very happy about it. With 9TB without any journaling, you might run into problems if you crash and need to fsck - the number of files you could have on the file system could well require more memory/time than you have available. > I will not be using snapshots on this array. > > But I do absolutely need to run quotas (both user and > group) on this 9 GB array. I also need to successfully > use all quota admin tools (repquota, edquota, quota, > etc.) > > Can I get an assurance that this is totally safe, > sane, and fit to run in a mission critical, data > critical environment ? Anyone doing it currently ? > > Any comments or warnings of _any kind_ much appreciated. I don't think anyone will say 'I promise it will work' of course, but I would start by using the latest 6-STABLE source since there have been quite a number of updates to file system related code since 6.1. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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