From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 10:48:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flounder.jimking.net (flounder.jimking.net [209.205.176.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A36037B400 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from jking (jking.lgc.com [134.132.154.119]) (authenticated) by flounder.jimking.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2LImOs33660; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:48:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <007d01c1d108$fbbfa930$779a8486@jking> From: "Jim King" To: "Matthew Dillon" Cc: "David Greenman" , References: <20020321191258.J64325-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> <200203211715.g2LHFeo21349@apollo.backplane.com> Subject: Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:48:22 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 "Matthew Dillon" wrote: > Or, for example, you could take 12 160G disks, split each one into > two 80G partitions (say 'd' and 'e'), and the RAID-5 all the 'd' > partitions together into a 800G logical drive and RAID-5 all the > 'e' partitions together into another 800G logical drive. What's the advantage of doing this vs. one 800GB RAID5 volume on 6 of the drives and another 800GB RAID5 volume on the other 6 drives? Or was your example just for illustration? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message