From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Oct 15 17:54:00 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1765AA153B5 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:54:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com) Received: from know-smtprelay-omc-9.server.virginmedia.net (know-smtprelay-omc-9.server.virginmedia.net [80.0.253.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD0C911 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:53:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([82.27.143.36]) by know-smtprelay-9-imp with bizsmtp id VVsn1r00P0nKdLJ01Vsnnc; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:52:47 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [82.27.143.36] X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=TNS4MARa c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=sI0VlXMVYIpMuXrauH8AmA==:117 a=sI0VlXMVYIpMuXrauH8AmA==:17 a=NLZqzBF-AAAA:8 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=5lJygRwiOn0A:10 a=R_4_8qS_AAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=ly4eE7AaKVDSJL8ooF4A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 500) id A28716070E; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:52:47 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:52:47 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Follow-up install questions Message-ID: <20151015175247.GA9211@milliways> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:54:00 -0000 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 > > >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"