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Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject: Re: Filesystems larger than 2TB?
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Zane C.B. writes:

> In such a situation, I would seperate the data drives and the OS
> drives, instead of having them in one big raid. This makes it a lot
> more manageable.

Ok. Let me see if I understand. 
So I could take say 2 drives and make it raid 1. T
hen make another raid with the rest of the drives and I would then newfs -s the raw partition?

I also think 3ware controllers allow to take part of a raid display it 
separately, but still only have one raid. Will check before I do my next 
"large" machine.

Thanks for all the feedback.