One 27T drive?!

On May 26, 2017 17:27, "Scott Bonds" <sc...@ggr.com> wrote:

> I've got a 27T drive, single partition, about half full. Combination of
> big files and lots of small ones. 32G of ECC RAM. Hardware RAID5 ATM though
> I've used software RAID5 on the same array and that was good too.  I keep
> offline backups of everything. I think it takes around an hour to fsck, but
> I haven't timed it. Not using softdep. Not RO. Not sure what the file
> system is, whatever newfs chose...disklabel says fstype is 4.2BSD.
>
> On 05/26, Peter Hessler wrote:
>
>> On 2017 May 26 (Fri) at 11:35:49 -0300 (-0300), Friedrich Locke wrote:
>> :Hi folks,
>> :
>> :does anybody here run OBSD with a file system bigger than 10TB ?
>> :How much time boot takes to bring the system up (i mean fsck) ?
>> :Are you using ffs2 ? With softdep ?
>> :
>> :Thanks.
>>
>> I created a 24T disk with ff2.  I populated 2Tb of it while in async
>> mode, then pulled the power.  fsck took only 5 minutes.
>>
>> Later, I repartitioned the machine to the sizes we actually want
>> (several 5T partitions) and it is running as ftp.hostserver.de.  We
>> aren't using softdep, and generally run RO on many of the partitions.
>>
>> Please give it a try on your own hardware, paritition sizes, and
>> collection of files.
>>
>> --
>> Don't say "yes" until I finish talking.
>>                 -- Darryl F. Zanuck
>>
>>
>

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