Subject: Re: Big RAIDframe
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/06/2007 07:41:03
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:25:06PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> So it works about as well as a single real disk that big would
> (assuming a disk interface that didn't have a 2T limit)?  That's about
> as much as I could expect.

Yeah. I did it this way because the SAN's own setup couldn't make a
LUN bigger than 2T, so I made several at that size and RF'd them.

> > I didn't use it extensively enough to detect the kinds of subtle
> > filesystem problems you've seen in the past, but if you're using the
> > volume for something else than FFS that shouldn't be as much of a
> > concern.
>=20
> No, it'd be used for FFS, and I'd throw my filesystem tester stuff at
> it before committing real data to it.  I just wanted to save the time
> and effort if it were known to be busted or something.

Ahuh.  Good luck, I'd be very glad of thorough validation of FFS >2T too.

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Dan.
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