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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Apr 15), Edgar Martinez said:
> OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if
> you would care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone
> wants me to do some experiments or test something, let me know...I
> for one welcome any attempts at pushing any limits or trying new
> things...

If your array is just going to used for one large filesystem, you can
skip any partitioning steps and newfs the base device directly.  then
if you decide to grow the array (and if your controller supports
nondestructive resizing), you can use growfs to expand the filesystem
without the extra step of manually adjusting a partition table.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com