Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:36:55 -0500 From: "Edgar Martinez" <emartinez@crockettint.com> To: "'Dan Nelson'" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: 'Nick Pavlica' <linicks@gmail.com> Subject: RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions Message-ID: <20050415173650.3DCED33D93@mxc1.crockettint.com> In-Reply-To: <20050415171435.GP4842@dan.emsphone.com>
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I don't think I have ever done that...or even considered that was possible...The controller does support growing the array...Guess I'll give it a shot starting with 2TB and then grow it in increments to see how it behaves...any suggestions for newfs'in the device directly?? -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@allantgroup.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:15 PM To: Edgar Martinez Cc: 'Nick Evans'; 'Benson Wong'; 'Nick Pavlica'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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