From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 5 18:57:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFA516A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:57:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FDE43D39 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:57:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linicks@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 34so536252rns for ; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:57:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=W/V9ZP6/7bidfZw7wjhg8hbL3O2Ozfs0HT1tnTptgj+7TKjDhsxdcWnr4XZOrrE/VCrwQVsIeaikcq9H/bKTinQaNkqd1PxLYYXp0RcoZJ2D9sTIIETY1CTYHfNvNkr8iHBvwebYAZ+TWa3pwW3guLU9IbUup9PEhQI2on6ZwtM= Received: by 10.38.8.56 with SMTP id 56mr42777rnh; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 10:57:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.8.69 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:57:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:57:42 -0700 From: Nick Pavlica To: Eric McCoy In-Reply-To: <4229C6EE.5080305@haystacks.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4229C6EE.5080305@haystacks.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Potential dangers with big arrays X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nick Pavlica List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:57:44 -0000 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 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" >