From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 27 16:21:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECE316A480 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 16:21:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D2013C4C1 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 16:21:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b14so2055199qbc for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 09:21:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=q9hwsndOEdoSrHZ1luPbIAWkqGwfYSMzzNo0ZMP46lqFhburfSXYNO7+hwEsKgtWdSojlkFiaOuOgIDx4h9ByE3h3gzHiTiQzHYbQdOTuIiUwiQQDyNYAbb5lcmXu00p6oWIFmz0LAq7hDY6eTJCL7tNjT34TVcruVNyBbUc1mI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=SKnA2VRX3QR0IywlyONpdfm9IMthuizwcu02rdAqQ8+P+KRIQxl5VbcRRAq3qT0dLnbzlwPTrOgGTvSFGpVSO5wC1w6Rk2WmiyXpAqzSZzdG01iBSV7uzjdi4lHGSqji7toE43F1U3jN7eL86GqRQknwKuGixytioUVQ/m/T2sU= Received: by 10.142.87.15 with SMTP id k15mr138795wfb.1180282863486; Sun, 27 May 2007 09:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.41.18 with HTTP; Sun, 27 May 2007 09:21:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <99c92b5f0705270921x36cdb1afl6c6ef1a3cc949091@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 18:21:03 +0200 From: "Richard Noorlandt" To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <000701c79e62$2c9c4190$85d4c4b0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <99c92b5f0705240730o146c1bb4x326591687e445cd@mail.gmail.com> <000701c79e62$2c9c4190$85d4c4b0$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Growing UFS beyond 2 TB X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 16:21:06 -0000 2007/5/25, Jan Mikkelsen : > > You can use the Areca controller to create separate devices/LUNs, > and then ignore fdisk/gpt/labels altogether for the large > filesystem you want to grow, and just stick the filesystem directly > on /dev/da1, or whatever it ends up being. I didn't realize that you could actually put the FS directly on the drive without partitioning it first, but it makes sense. Are there any known problems with such a setup? As far as I know, most people always partition their drives, so I don't know how often this is done.. As a bonus, you don't have to do all the calculations to figure out > where the partitions should start. See: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2006-October/002312.h > tml That appears to be quite a nice bonus. Better performance with less work ;-)