Hi,
I am planning to build a 12x 1TB array RAID 6 on a hardware controller... I
will use it as a nfs server for archiving files (we need to keep legal files
for 6 years)...
Raid 6 will give me a 10 TB drive approx...
Reading these pages:
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On 22/03/2010 14:03:53, Ian Lord wrote:
I kinda understand freebsd is not well suited for that. I can read
between the lines that we shouldn't go over 2TB. Is this information
still exact or outdated ?
Outdated. The 2TB limit comes from the
MBR can only work with 2TB volumes, however, we are no longer limited
to MBR. With GPT, we can have really really big volumes. That being
said, I really don't think you should be using a single 12TB volume
with UFS, even if you have underlying redundancy provided by a
hardware raid device. Have
