From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 20:15:11 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 9A14A16A4CE for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 20:15:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zhonka1.zhonka.net (zhonka1.zhonka.net [66.228.195.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB5243D60 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 20:15:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([66.228.196.74]) by zhonka1.zhonka.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58414U4500L450S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Tue, 3 May 2005 13:14:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DFD58AB; Tue, 3 May 2005 13:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wolf.pjkh.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53459-08; Tue, 3 May 2005 13:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8F7EA58AA; Tue, 3 May 2005 13:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 884FD58A9; Tue, 3 May 2005 13:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 13:13:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Charles Swiger In-Reply-To: <6b85afa781fdccd89d861b08ffe3d0d6@mac.com> Message-ID: <20050503131311.F54447@wolf.pjkh.com> References: <4277CDAF.1050601@firebadger.net> <6b85afa781fdccd89d861b08ffe3d0d6@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pjkh.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Richard Collyer 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 20:15:11 -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 ^^^ You meant 2TB not 2GB right? Cause I've been using samba with 8GB shares for a looong time... I'm guessing so, just thought we should be sure :) > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >