Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:57:42 -0700 From: Nick Pavlica <linicks@gmail.com> To: Eric McCoy <emccoy@haystacks.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Potential dangers with big arrays Message-ID: <dc9ba04405030510577af3d7c4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4229C6EE.5080305@haystacks.org> References: <4229C6EE.5080305@haystacks.org>
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Eric, I believe that UFS2 (5.3+) will handle filesystems of that size without a problem. I would make sure however that your hardware plays well with freebsd before you purchase it. --Nick On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:49:18 -0500, Eric McCoy <emccoy@haystacks.org> wrote: > I'm planning to build a fairly large - somewhere from 1TB to 1.75TB in > size - array behind a hardware RAID controller and put FreeBSD on it. > But after being a good boy and Googling for information before laying > out a couple grand, I discovered that FreeBSD might not have such great > support for large filesystems. The last bit of useful information I > found was from July 2004, so the situation might have changed since then > and I figured I'd ask. > > What sort of problems can I expect to see? Aesthetic problems, like > negative numbers in df, are not a worry. The vast majority of files > will be 1GB or smaller, so that's not a concern either. But the guy who > did those tests in July got "no space left on device" after using up > only 800GB or so, and that obviously would be a problem. Naturally I > can, and will, test this myself when I get the hardware, but I'm > concerned that there may be creeping invisible problems which might > result in frequent panics or loss of data - problems which might not > become apparent until after I've reached the point where I no longer > have enough room to play musical chairs with my data (which will be > about 400GB in). > > Any information anyone has, even if it's just a pointer to who or where > I should be asking instead, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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