From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 14 22:11:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1270B1065676 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:11:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryan.coleman@cwis.biz) Received: from mail.skiltech.com (bunning.skiltech.com [65.36.251.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0B38FC17 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:11:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryan.coleman@cwis.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.skiltech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C2F25C0A8; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:11:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at skiltech.com Received: from mail.skiltech.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bunning.skiltech.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VGDZ3MkK3hos; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:11:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.102] (c-66-41-254-193.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [66.41.254.193]) by mail.skiltech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B7C4725C083; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:11:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <48544214.4070409@cwis.biz> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:11:32 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Zane C.B." References: <4853D980.9030304@cwis.biz> <20080614165408.55e74f8d@vixen42> In-Reply-To: <20080614165408.55e74f8d@vixen42> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing RAM 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: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:11:35 -0000 Zane C.B. wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:45:20 -0500 > Ryan Coleman 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