Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:52:47 +0100 From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow-up install questions Message-ID: <20151015175247.GA9211@milliways>
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Whoops, I replied to sender instead of to the list - not enough coffee. On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 08:54:57AM -0453, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 10/15/15 08:40, Adam Vande More wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:42 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net > > > >Why is speed such a concern for you? A single SATA is easily enough to > >read and write multiple 1080p streams concurrently. > > > >What do you have against white space? It's too painful to read further. > > > >-- > >Adam > > > I am not streaming 1080p streams on this box, that would be on the smaller > MythTV box. I will be using the larger box to compile in-house analysis code > (predominantly CFD, some FEA) & run validation cases, some of which can/will > produce prodigious amounts of output, ASCII & binary. Larger data sets can > take plural min. to write on linux mdadm RAID0's, current 1st-hand > experience w/ the incumbent 1-box compile-farm-&-validation box, Intel > based. I/O performance *IS* an issue for me, sorry for the bother. I > configure *ALL* of my boxen to possibly serve as validation & calculation > boxen, maxed-out RAM & generous swap space. Again, sorry for that bother. I > am planning to follow the wiki page > (https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE) closely, > obviously w/ more HDD's, in my setup, with just the one (1) question about > 'unmirrored zpools'. That page implies that *any* zpool configuration will > work, I am just trying to verify that & save myself as many bumps in the > road & wasted time as possible. TIA for any further help & experience or > sage advice. Have a good one. > > > & WTF about white space ? > > I think the complaint is that you string everything into one long paragraph. 20 lines in the original post, 14 in the reply. Reading text is *easier* when paragraphs are short - the whitespeace between paragraphs makes it easier to keep your place. ĸen -- Il Porcupino Nil Sodomy Est! (if you will excuse my latatian) aka "The hedgehog song"
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