From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 29 14:46:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3981065670 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:46:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f195.google.com (mail-qy0-f195.google.com [209.85.221.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428F18FC13 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:46:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk33 with SMTP id 33so7366785qyk.28 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:46:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=nxF1jrvG7/Tg9C/T9bqE/Icvzn0hELrkmVbdA7C8ihE=; b=miCoLD33S/YswUQjSPfyzb1W5EOU/2pKzvzUB1KL9Vt/L2n9DILnLrb/mOSd6wK3Mf I/5B6a8gEc8MISDrt+HVlMwXXxuKot+/sBeEqjtG0Ybx86SrEzjmEWVU2fep0c24108n z/+LzwKjVhZe9E8luC4tB/w8zyscl9OW2eyVI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Q6iqM2DeporiAhMmqYpvrrv3s3tFQkDL524e7oU6g3oet65BBHYJL4CW62L+fJzlFk rS2lOVxN2NaGdveSEaT1rUEM2Xj7eQP/ln0n0ge/fyaTNm10ek72HaeYD+n0bc9ebVuR dhPKH051uK0aGIT2woCUn25UffyuevTG895i4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.82.14 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:39:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:39:58 -0600 Received: by 10.229.222.82 with SMTP id if18mr3383248qcb.65.1269873598303; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6201873e1003290739t588ae242gef92d14e9d889749@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: John Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:46:13 -0000 On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help! >> > > > You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot > with a size > TB. AKAIK, sysinstall doesn't support this, requiring a more > "hands on" installation. > > If you haven't considered it, it may be worthwhile to use ZFS. In that > scenario, you'd want to the controller to present the disks as JBOD and use > RAIDZ. Once again, sysinstall doesn't support this, but there are some good > FreeBSD wiki articles on it. > Opps, didn't read the RAID-0 bit, still try the GPT stuff, the 2TB MBR is a hard limit. gstripe(8) would also be an option. With you're RAID-0, were you looking of for read or write speed? You can still use RAIDZ and outperform a straight stripe in most workloads if you make use of an ssd based L2ARC and a ZIL for read and writes respectively. -- Adam Vande More