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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:43:50 -0400
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: large RAID volume partition strategy
Message-ID:  <3A05E0E7-403E-4203-9B9B-AC78549D4E17@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <b41c75520708171510i38594117sc55dfabf06ea302@mail.gmail.com>
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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?




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