From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 14 23:22:58 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 B61111065672 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:22:58 +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 88A398FC13 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:22:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryan.coleman@cwis.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.skiltech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FF025C05B for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:22:57 -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 xaJKduQlf5Id for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:22:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (c-75-73-67-167.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [75.73.67.167]) by mail.skiltech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5E19E25BEF3 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:22:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <485452C6.7000802@cwis.biz> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:22:46 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4853D980.9030304@cwis.biz> <20080614165408.55e74f8d@vixen42> <48544214.4070409@cwis.biz> <20080614174217.40173e4d@vixen42> In-Reply-To: <20080614174217.40173e4d@vixen42> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 23:22:58 -0000 Zane C.B. wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:11:32 -0500 > Ryan Coleman wrote: > > >> 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 >> > > 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.