Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:22:46 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Testing RAM Message-ID: <485452C6.7000802@cwis.biz> In-Reply-To: <20080614174217.40173e4d@vixen42> References: <4853D980.9030304@cwis.biz> <20080614165408.55e74f8d@vixen42> <48544214.4070409@cwis.biz> <20080614174217.40173e4d@vixen42>
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Zane C.B. wrote: > 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. > Ok, and since I have all 8 ports used on this SATA RAID controller I won't worry about it. I reinstalled 6.3-RELEASE for amd64 and I cannot get the DNS client to work... I can do one lookup and then it stops working. I am sooooo frustrated.
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