From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 17 23:31:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9BF16A418 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:31:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0376213C4B5 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:31:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IMBIF-0007pr-R8 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:31:51 +0200 Received: from 78-0-71-152.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.0.71.152]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:31:51 +0200 Received: from ivoras by 78-0-71-152.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:31:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:31:38 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <31BB09D7-B58A-47AC-8DD1-6BB8141170D8@khera.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-0-71-152.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <31BB09D7-B58A-47AC-8DD1-6BB8141170D8@khera.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Sender: news Subject: Re: large RAID volume partition strategy X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:31:59 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vivek Khera wrote: > I'm not keen on option 1 because of the potentially long fsck times > after a crash. Depending on your allowable downtime after a crash, fscking even a 1 TB UFS file system can be a long time. For large file systems there's really no alternative to using -CURRENT / 7.0, and either gjournal or ZFS. When you get there, you'll need to create 1 small RAID volume (<= 1 GB) from which to boot (and probably use it for root) and use the rest for whatever your choice is (doesn't really matter at this point). This is because you can't have fdisk or bsdlabel partitions larger than 2 TB and you can't boot from GPT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGxi/aldnAQVacBcgRAovJAKCnFTdEn81uf9lsYg+CuI5kulrd5ACeKcLt J/4WEUQA9Paw2FR9EnHZ8g0= =HXLY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----