On Tuesday, 15 February 2000 at 3:40:58 -0600, Joe Greco wrote:
> So I wanted to vinum my new 1.9TB of disks together just for chuckles, and
> it went OK up to the newfs..
>
> S play.p0.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 46 GB
> S play.p0.s1 State: up PO: 32 MB Size: 46 GB
> <snip>
> S play.p0.s37 State: up PO: 1184 MB Size: 46 GB
Well, it's a pity you weren't able to newfs it, but I'm glad to see
that Vinum could do it. I'm not sure that striping buys you anything
here, though, and a 32 MB stripe is going to be worse than
concatenation: you'll have *all* your superblocks on the same disk!
> Just thought I'd mention it. I'm putting the machine into
> production, with the smaller filesystems that I originally intended,
> but it seemed noteworthy to pass this along.
JOOI, how big are the file systems? Why did you choose this size?
> Dunno how many terabyte filesystem folks are out there.
None, by the looks of it.
Greg
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