From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 19:45:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A111116A4CE for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 19:45:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CDC43D5A for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 19:45:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) id j43JjXOW021124; Tue, 3 May 2005 12:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) (authenticated bits=0)j43JjVeD016822; Tue, 3 May 2005 12:45:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4277CDAF.1050601@firebadger.net> References: <4277CDAF.1050601@firebadger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <6b85afa781fdccd89d861b08ffe3d0d6@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 15:45:30 -0400 To: Richard Collyer X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Raid Array Over 2Tb on Samba X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 19:45:43 -0000 On May 3, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Richard Collyer wrote: > I plan on building a raid array of 8*400GB disks raid 5. Now as win2k > cant support partitions over 2tb and I right in thinking that this is > for the local machine only and that over samba (array in FreeBSD 5.4 > machine [when it comes out]) it should be able to see all space or > will I have to carve it up. I would not recommend trying to use greater than 2GB partitions via Samba, or even natively, at this time. There are significant issues, such as being able to run fsck against such large partitions without fsck's memory usage consuming excessive resources. If you need to set up such a massive NAS fileserver, you really ought to consider dedicated products from companies like Auspex and NetApp. Another alternative might be an Apple Xserve RAID with Xsan, but this doesn't have the track record of my earlier suggestions. -- -Chuck