From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 20:19:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9F516A412 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:19:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from donnex@donnex.net) Received: from donnex.net (donnex.net [82.96.44.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EAE9443D5F for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:19:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donnex@donnex.net) Received: (qmail 89232 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2006 20:15:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.42?) (192.168.1.42) by mail.donnex.net with SMTP; 2 Oct 2006 20:15:39 -0000 Message-ID: <45217439.5070704@donnex.net> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:19:05 +0200 From: Daniel Johansson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Questions about adding new disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:19:21 -0000 Hello, I've just bought two new Seagate SATA drives and a Promise TX4 SATA300 controller. The disks and the controller is working fine but I'm a little confused how I should setup them. First of all I'm running FreeBSD 6.1. The disks are two 320 GB drives who I'm going to use for storage. Backups, movies, music etc. I've read the handbook about adding new disks and I've got them setup but here are my questions. 1. Should I use soft updates or not on the new disks? The handbook doesn't mention anything about using -U to newfs to setup soft updates. The installer is using it on the system disks but is it a bad idea to use it on storage disks or why isn't it mention in the handbook? 2. Is it a bad idea to use tunefs -m 0 ? I don't need any space reserved for root at the disks but the man page mentions that I'll loose performance when using -m 0. Will it be so much that the extra space isn't worth the performance loss? 3. Should I use tunefs -o space or time? I guess space is the way to go but again how much of a performance loss is there? If you replay to this email could you please CC it to me as I'm not subscribed to this list. Thank you for you help.