Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Matias Surdi
Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Matias Surdi wrote: Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Some comments that may help in the decision: -

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Matias Surdi
Frederique Rijsdijk escribió: Matias Surdi wrote: Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Some comments that may

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
gconcat On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ZFS was a disaster. That is what we were using until today, when the power went off and the zfs pool ended up corrupted and irrecoverable. normal. Three other times we had power failures, the zpool ended with some errors. But, all the times, the UFS partitions remained intact.

Re: Large raid arrays

2009-01-20 Thread Matias Surdi
Wojciech Puchar escribió: gconcat On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, I've a host with two large (2Tb and 4 Tb) hardware raid5 arrays. For the backup system we are using, I need to join them to make 1 logical device. What would you recomment? ccd or vinum? Thanks a lot for

Re: Large RAID arrays, partitioning

2008-08-18 Thread Joze Volf
Thanks for your opinion. For now I will stick with the large RAID volume and no slices/partitions. As you said, it makes life less complicated. I think there is no problem about future upgrades supporting large volumes. I guess there will be support for even larger volumes. The more important

Re: Large RAID arrays, partitioning

2008-08-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Joze Volf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a HP DL320s 2U server with 12 500 GB SATA drives and Smart Array P400 RAID controller. The machine will be a video streaming server for a public library. The system I am installing is 7.0-RELEASE, amd64. I made 2 RAID6 volumes, one 120GB

Re: Large RAID arrays, partitioning

2008-08-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I searched the web again and found a possible solution to my problem. I used the newfs -U -O2 /dev/da1 command to create the filesystem directly on the Is it somehow bad to make a filesystem directly on a storage device such as disk drive or hardware raid volume? no it is all right! it just