From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 11 04:47:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736AD16A469 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:47:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=QtkB+t=LL=vvelox.net=v.velox@yourhostingaccount.com) Received: from mailout17.yourhostingaccount.com (mailout17.yourhostingaccount.com [65.254.253.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D5613C44B for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:47:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=QtkB+t=LL=vvelox.net=v.velox@yourhostingaccount.com) Received: from mailscan12.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.15.12] helo=mailscan12.yourhostingaccount.com) by mailout17.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtp (Exim) id 1HxbKq-000798-DH for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:16:56 -0400 Received: from authsmtp10.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.18.10] ident=exim) by mailscan12.yourhostingaccount.com with spamscanlookuphost (Exim) id 1HxbKq-0006UJ-8D for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:16:56 -0400 Received: from authsmtp10.yourhostingaccount.com ([10.1.18.10] helo=authsmtp10.yourhostingaccount.com) by mailscan12.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtp (Exim) id 1HxbKn-0006TT-UJ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:16:53 -0400 Received: from cpe-24-93-100-44.columbus.res.rr.com ([24.93.100.44] helo=vixen42) by authsmtp10.yourhostingaccount.com with esmtpa (Exim) id 1HxbKm-0000FY-R9; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:16:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:17:23 -0400 From: Vulpes Velox To: Francisco Reyes Message-ID: <20070611001723.5956b21c@vixen42> In-Reply-To: References: <20070610142832.11ecfaff@vixen42> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EN-UserInfo: 0d1ca1697cdb7a831d4877828571b7ab:1570f0de6936c69fef9e164fffc541bc X-EN-AuthUser: vvelox2 Sender: Vulpes Velox X-EN-OrigIP: 24.93.100.44 X-EN-OrigHost: cpe-24-93-100-44.columbus.res.rr.com Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Filesystems larger than 2TB? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:47:20 -0000 On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:01:54 -0400 Francisco Reyes wrote: > 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. Yeah, something along those lines. I've found it really makes things nicer in the long run. That way you can easily move the data drives around seperate of OS. It makes upgrading a lot smoother process as well.