From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 18 01:43:52 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 0D68216A420 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:43:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (thingy.kcilink.com [74.92.149.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B2813C465 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:43:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.135.92] (unknown [192.168.135.92]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BDCAB80D for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:43:51 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: References: <31BB09D7-B58A-47AC-8DD1-6BB8141170D8@khera.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3A05E0E7-403E-4203-9B9B-AC78549D4E17@khera.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Vivek Khera Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:43:50 -0400 To: FreeBSD Stable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) 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: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:43:52 -0000 On Aug 17, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote: > If you want to avoid the long fsck-times your remaining options are a > journaling filesystem or zfs, either requires an upgrade from freebsd > 6.2. I have used zfs and had a serverstop due to powerutage in out > area. Our zfs-samba-server came up fine with no data corruption. So I > will suggest freebsd 7.0 with zfs. Interesting idea... But, if I don't go with zfs, which would be a better way to slice the space up: RAID volumes exported as individual disks to freebsd, or one RAID volume divided into multiple logical partitions with disklabel?