Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 05:44:45 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file systems Message-ID: <20140327054445.b106a8cbe86341286bde4f28@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <CANMDHqeqQwuub4CeQKhEGss2Z%2BACzwrsiyMDG3c7mfPunwrpNA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANMDHqeqQwuub4CeQKhEGss2Z%2BACzwrsiyMDG3c7mfPunwrpNA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:38:47 -0300 Friedrich Locke <friedrich.locke@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > i am in need to install *BSD on a 16T partition. I would like to OBSD, but > someone from the OBSD community told me that altough OBSD uses ufs2, fsck > would take to much time and memory against this partition. > > I wonder if FBSD can really handle large partition with no side effects. > What FS should i use with FBSD? I would strongly suggest using ZFS for a partition of that size the data integrity protection becomes more and more important the larger the file system. By ZFS standards 16TB is quite small. If the data is of any real value then you really want to be using some kind of protection I would go for being protected against two drive failures on that scale (RAIDZ2 in ZFS, RAID6 on a hardware RAID, or a three way mirror but that would use a lot of drives). If you do go with ZFS don't use a hardware RAID let ZFS manage the drives. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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