From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 16:25:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (d-177.linux2002.uq.net.au [203.15.37.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B5337B405 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:25:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g180PiL66980; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:25:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:25:44 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Matthew Bettinger Cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: Vinum Plex Size Message-ID: <20020208102544.F66565@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20020207141724.28267.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> <000701c1aff4$b11551d0$9202c9c9@championelevators.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000701c1aff4$b11551d0$9202c9c9@championelevators.com>; from mbettinger@championelevators.com on Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:30:01AM -0600 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 On Thursday, 7 February 2002 at 10:30:01 -0600, Matthew Bettinger wrote: > References: <20020207141724.28267.qmail@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> Why do you refer to this message? It's about 4.5-RELEASE installation. > I threw a bsd box together to replace a winbloze 2000 file server and I am > using vinum. > > I have 3 disks. One disk has bsd on it and the other two disks are > 20 gig drives which will be striped. I have a question about plex > size here. I've read use 256k then elsewhere I've read don't use > powers of 2. Could someone please straighten me out regarding this. Well, your plex needs to be much bigger than 256 kB. But the stripe size should be somewhere between 256 kB and 512 kB, not a power of two, but a multiple of 8 kB. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message