From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 11:54:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5AF416A401 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 11:54:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from F.Haarman@giessen.nl) Received: from mail02.net.giessen.nl (mail.giessen.nl [213.53.114.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AB2D13C487 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 11:54:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from F.Haarman@giessen.nl) Received: (qmail 47251 invoked from network); 2 May 2007 13:00:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dg-exch1.giessen.nl) (172.16.10.11) by 0 with SMTP; 2 May 2007 13:00:59 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.2826 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Importance: normal Priority: normal Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 13:28:03 +0200 Message-ID: <2DC959620A73E842969792F5B47FCA01037D44F1@dg-exch1.giessen.nl> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: 7TB Storage in Files ? thread-index: AceMrPLDoHEMOHfTRCiVpP6NeqprPA== From: "Frans Haarman" To: Subject: 7TB Storage in Files ? 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, 02 May 2007 11:54:49 -0000 Hello, I was hoping some of the readers are using Virtualdisk within FreeBSD ( mdconfig -a -f my-virtualdisk.vdisk ) . We have a huge storage partition, currently 7.2TB (4.8 in use). I want to split the storage into virtualdisk so we can be more flexibile with dumping, snapshoting, and moving "contracts" to some other storage. Whats the biggest "virtualdisk" you have seen in production ? The biggest directory we now have is 840GB. We suspect it wil grow to 1.5TB in the coming months. Putting all that in a virtualdisk, well, maybe its smarter To dedicated a partition for so much data. But that's because I havent got much experience with such big Virtual disks. However we still have many smaller directories which are between 50GB <> 300GB. Somehow that seems more "safe" to put in a virtualdisk. It's probably my ignorance talking ;) Any feedback is welcome! Cheers, FH. Frans Haarman De Giessen Automatisering B.V. Technische Dienst Telefoon : (0184) 67 53 75 Fax : (0184) 61 12 46 E-mail : servicedesk@giessen.nl Website : www.giessen.nl Algemeen Tel : (0184) 67 54 00 d u i d e l i j k e t a a l !