From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 22:41:44 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 849A6C8C for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:41:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x236.google.com (mail-ie0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5428D81F for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:41:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id y20so2420964ier.13 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:41:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=w70ukg9hEUknmITw/8qKGJJKyHmaaeVk7FDnaq4TiFs=; b=wHOiH5Mt1Y2OWLbI/wNRUCISRsws3F6VpzY95y4qMOQXGFsZJU3J236g7hrZtQ82Sb pWck6Uo5NdY1x3+VgthBY2w/ZdRP6E0/S8ogohvDZm8lJ9o8PXEJr8GcwgPvx8amqYvH lEWjLjBWmmY51Fv1/u9bW4NvsKQ7EfesaEjiUZH2yHggS64BndBNZHVgQiWgGy1QduEo klQqDbIVsNkZS3rNevRRWDNZa/HyHJajphtCW/ooqtDlaX4DkdB+CO3QFNwDh+fBVYvY nUabpibLqdBaJtU4Hci1c3EuuKsNFy9tE27rlN6DbqAax6PUrE3pmVhr/rBMqXudxBlp jT+g== X-Received: by 10.50.136.168 with SMTP id qb8mr321131igb.13.1395873703019; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:41:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.115.2 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:41:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <35.BD.23300.78653335@cdptpa-oedge01> References: <35.BD.23300.78653335@cdptpa-oedge01> From: sven falempin Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:41:12 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: file systems To: Thomas Mueller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:41:44 -0000 On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from illoai@gmail.com: > >> On 26 March 2014 15:38, Friedrich Locke 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 /\