Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:39:58 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: John <comp.john@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0 Message-ID: <6201873e1003290739t588ae242gef92d14e9d889749@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100329135340.GA85635@potato> <6201873e1003290731x148a2415q5113feb8a0479d4b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>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
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