Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:41:12 -0400 From: sven falempin <sven.falempin@gmail.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file systems Message-ID: <CA%2B%2BfYEgshGzJptU%2B_v1w-v9Df2xXVs4yfTWdEmiRgPWcgpmNKA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <35.BD.23300.78653335@cdptpa-oedge01> References: <ldnrbf$jrp$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAHHBGko4p_Lgrcb4_NmRJUfStfKnPudohZWVMSGfMAYMibMgHg@mail.gmail.com> <35.BD.23300.78653335@cdptpa-oedge01>
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote: > from illoai@gmail.com: > >> On 26 March 2014 15:38, Friedrich Locke <friedrich.locke@gmail.com> wrot= e: >> > Hi folks, > >> > i am in need to install *BSD on a 16T partition. I would like to OBSD,= but >> > someone from the OBSD community told me that altough OBSD uses ufs2, f= sck >> > would take to much time and memory against this partition. > >> > I wonder if FBSD can really handle large partition with no side effect= s. >> > What FS should i use with FBSD? > >> > Sorry if this question seems to basic; it dues to my lack of experienc= e >> > with FBSD. > >> You're talking about a single filesystem of 16TB? Well, depending >> on how you plan to use it, that might work. It will probably take >> several GB of memory to fsck such a monster. > >> You can use zfs, which will need several GB of memory all of the >> time, but was designed to handle such terrible big things. > >> FreeBSD also recently (in the last decade) added SU+J >> (q.v. http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/22716.html ) >> which may work for such a horrible large thing. > > You don't say how much RAM you have, and I am not familiar with how much = RAM is needed to fsck a big ufs2 file system. > > I would look into SU+J. > > My biggest hard drive is 3 TB, and biggest partition only a small percent= age of that, and OpenBSD can't read any part of it. > > I don't think OpenBSD would be suitable. OpenBSD lacks support for GPT, = also no support for USB 3.0. USB 3 is in test, and my usb 3 key is working with it. GPT is lacking > > Only way I use OpenBSD is live USB from liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net .= I managed to get X to start by tweaking an xorg.conf from NetBSD, but sti= ll the mouse pointer remained invisible. Only way I know the mouse pointer= existed was by what part of the screen became active. So that USB stick s= its inactive most of the time. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------------------ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\
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