From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 14:01:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E441065674 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 14:01:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from smtp.vub.ac.be (mxout.vub.ac.be [134.184.129.111]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA4F8FC14 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 14:01:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhIBAL7HM0ikD30E/2dsb2JhbAAIsB0 Received: from bebif01.ulb.ac.be (HELO [10.0.0.194]) ([164.15.125.4]) by smtp.vub.ac.be with ESMTP; 21 May 2008 16:01:47 +0200 From: Julien Cigar To: Matias Surdi In-Reply-To: References: <1211379419.2665.2.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 18:09:26 +0200 Message-Id: <1211386166.2665.12.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large filesystems help/ideas X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:01:49 -0000 If you only have FreeBSD installed on the box or if you don't need slices/partitions you can just do newfs /dev/xxx (dedicate). vinum should not be used on 6.x and above, gvinum (GEOM + vinum) replaced it but I'm not sure if it's still actively supported/developped .. (?) Also, take a look at gconcat and unionfs. On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 15:24 +0200, Matias Surdi wrote: > As far as I understand from the following sentence taken from the link > you are pointing and the text following it: > > "...Many systems don't require an MBR or GPT, and even PCs don't require > it if booting and inter-operating with other OS's is not required. The > next limit that comes in, though, is with the BSD disklabel..." > > I understand that I could have up to 8 slices of 2 Tb, with partitions > (disklabel ones) inside each slice with up to 2Tb. > > Is that correct? > > What do you think about using this scheme and then join all them with > vinum on a software raid-0 array? > > Thanks a lot for your time and help. > > > > > Julien Cigar escribió: > > You cannot use fdisk slices/partitions with disks over 2TB. For those > > GPT should be used. More info is available from here : > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk > > > > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:57 +0200, Matias Surdi wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I'm implementing a backup solution at work.We've bought a x86 server > >> with two hardware raid 5 with for a total storage capacity of about 7Tb. > >> > >> For the software we are using for backups, the ideal scenario would be > >> to have just one "big disk" so that no space problems would appear. > >> > >> I've tried to install FreeBSD 7 with no success, as it seems... the > >> sysinstall tool doesn't support such big slices. > >> > >> I've read about the "Large Data Storage on FreeBSD" but I'm still confused. > >> > >> I've also thought on using slices of 1Tb, and join all them using vinum. > >> What do you think about this last option? > >> > >> Thanks a lot for your help. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52