From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Jan 17 17: 0:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from meter.hydro.washington.edu (meter.hydro.washington.edu [128.95.246.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E6A737B41A for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:00:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (penglish@localhost) by meter.hydro.washington.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0I10hg04597 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:00:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:00:43 -0800 (PST) From: Paul English To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Two RAID questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 1) I'm using some Arena external IDE RAID boxes(www.raidweb.com). These are basically standalone embedded computers which have IDE interfaces for the hard drives, and a SCSI interface to connect to the host computer. So far they've worked well. The big problem is that fscking a 400GB filesystem takes a long time when the system crashes. In principle, should I have to do this? The RAID system has some amount of RAM onboard, which I assume is used for write caching among other things. 2) I understand that the 3ware Escalade Storage Switch products are supported under FreeBSD. Are they all supported? Well? I'm particularly interested in the 6800 (3ware claims FreeBSD support) and the 7810 and 7850 (3ware does not mention FreeBSD for the 7000 series, but mentions Linux). This seems like a much nicer/cheaper way to go over the Arena. Thanks, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message