Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:42:17 -0500 From: "Zane C.B." <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing RAM Message-ID: <20080614174217.40173e4d@vixen42> In-Reply-To: <48544214.4070409@cwis.biz> References: <4853D980.9030304@cwis.biz> <20080614165408.55e74f8d@vixen42> <48544214.4070409@cwis.biz>
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:11:32 -0500 Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> wrote: > Zane C.B. wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:45:20 -0500 > > Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> wrote: > > > > > >> How would I go about slamming the RAM in testing? I was figuring > >> I'd drop from 4GB to 1GB and just push the board with the same cp > >> -rvn commands I've been running in an attempt to populate my 7TB > >> RAID5. > >> > >> Also, am I using the wrong FS for the RAID? I partitioned it with > >> gpt (1 large slice) and formatted it with newfs but is there > >> another way? A better way? I read about ZFS recently but I am > >> sure the speed of reading from a RAID5 is lost with it's > >> redundancies. > > > > For something that large, ZFS would be my choice > I take it that's not something I can do after the fact, right? I am > not looking forward to redoing 1.6TB in file copying a second time Not that I am aware of. My big reason I would go with ZFS is it would make future updates easier as you can do it on the fly if the disks are just being added to a system.
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