From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 27 17:48:19 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 CDA1C16A469 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 17:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from que02.suddenlink.net (queue02.suddenlink.net [208.180.40.87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8179213C448 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 17:48:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from neutrino.vnode.org ([74.193.81.203]) by omta02.suddenlink.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070527172500.BBAN10446.omta02.suddenlink.net@neutrino.vnode.org>; Sun, 27 May 2007 12:25:00 -0500 Message-ID: <4659BEEC.3000601@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:25:00 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070521) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Noorlandt References: <99c92b5f0705240730o146c1bb4x326591687e445cd@mail.gmail.com> <000701c79e62$2c9c4190$85d4c4b0$@com> <99c92b5f0705270921x36cdb1afl6c6ef1a3cc949091@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <99c92b5f0705270921x36cdb1afl6c6ef1a3cc949091@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Growing UFS beyond 2 TB 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: Sun, 27 May 2007 17:48:19 -0000 On 05/27/07 11:21, Richard Noorlandt wrote: > 2007/5/25, Jan Mikkelsen : >> You can use the Areca controller to create separate devices/LUNs, >> and then ignore fdisk/gpt/labels altogether for the large >> filesystem you want to grow, and just stick the filesystem directly >> on /dev/da1, or whatever it ends up being. > > > I didn't realize that you could actually put the FS directly on the drive > without partitioning it first, but it makes sense. Are there any known > problems with such a setup? As far as I know, most people always partition > their drives, so I don't know how often this is done.. I try *not* to partition areas that are used for data only, if I can carve LUNs from the array or controller. I have set up lots of servers with that configuration, and they work nicely. > As a bonus, you don't have to do all the calculations to figure out >> where the partitions should start. See: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2006-October/002312.h >> tml > > > That appears to be quite a nice bonus. Better performance with less work ;-) Eric