On Thursday 20 March 2003 13:13, Alexander Haderer wrote: > a. > Filling 3TB with 1 Mbyte/s lasts more than 800 hours or 33 days. > > b. > Using ssh + dump/cpio/tar needs CPU power for encryption, especially > when multiple clients safe their data at the same time.
We're already using a system built on Rsync and Dirvish, which is very quick. Disk I/O is not likely to be the bottleneck. > c. > When using FreeBSD 4.X a fsck after a hard reboot will block the > server. fsck'ing a full 3TB filesystem may need a long time. Its better > to use several smaller file systems. I guess I'd opt for FreeBSD 5. > d. > Wrong parameters for newfs may slowdown large filesystems and waste > lots of space. Before using large filesystems read the manpage of > newfs, especially the topics about options -b -f -i Thanks for that tip. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://unsavoury.net/ natural selection has come home To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
