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Date:      Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:54:08 -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:  <20080614165408.55e74f8d@vixen42>
In-Reply-To: <4853D980.9030304@cwis.biz>
References:  <4853D980.9030304@cwis.biz>

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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.



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