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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:10:18 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, indigo@voda.cz, ivoras@fer.hr
Subject:   Re: comments on newfs raw disk ?  Safe ? (7 terabyte array)
Message-ID:  <200702130810.l1D8AIlZ026135@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <op.tnnmjwg45sheu4@spyro.eiecon.net>

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Indigo <indigo@voda.cz> wrote:
 > Ivan Voras wrote:
 > > Randy Bush wrote:
 > > > this thread has been great.  but i suspect it would be greatly
 > > > appreciated if the handbook had a page "How to format and use
 > > > multi-terabyte drives, facts, trade-offs, and recipies."  i am about to
 > > > do this (5TB), have been gathering info, and feel a appropriately  
 > > > confused.
 > > 
 > > It probably doesn't have to be a handbook chapter - I think an article
 > > would also be good, especially because it would contain "rule of thumb"
 > > information. I'll probably start making one during the next week or  
 > > two...
 > 
 > It would be nice to have more information about partitioning and  
 > filesystem tuning in the handbook. Im not going to write it -but If anyone  
 > ever decides to write it Id love to help in any way I can.

Note that there's already quite some information about that
in the tuning(7) manual page.  Have you had a look at it?

Best regards
   Oliver

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