Re: Large Drive issues / question

2006-02-17 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am under the impression from documentation and misc list archives, > > that openbsd doesn't support logical volumes only CCD. > > Huh? Use your _RAID_ volume managment to create multiple logical volumes and > the

Re: Large Drive issues / question

2006-02-17 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I am under the impression from documentation and misc list archives, > that openbsd doesn't support logical volumes only CCD. Huh? Use your _RAID_ volume managment to create multiple logical volumes and these will appear to your BSD box as multiple, smaller disks. Use

Re: Large Drive issues / question

2006-02-17 Thread Vincent Meanie
I am under the impression from documentation and misc list archives, that openbsd doesn't support logical volumes only CCD. Also I am planning on booting from the array, to gain the benefits of fail-over from the array. On Feb 17, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 200

Re: Large Drive issues / question

2006-02-17 Thread Alexander Hall
Vincent Meanie wrote: Is this hard limit because of issues with the filesystem? Would it be possible, limitations with the controller aside, to present the array as three 700mb slices and combine them with CCD? You'll still need a file system on the ccd, though. Maybe you could play with `ne

Re: Large Drive issues / question

2006-02-17 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:52:25PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > Not that creating very large filesystems also has some drawbacks: > mostly very long fsck times and high memory consumption. [...] And don't forget to consider tmp space consumption when using dump(8) and restore(8). Ciao, K

Re: Large Drive issues / question

2006-02-17 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Vincent Meanie wrote: > I have reviewed many faq's and searched the mailing list archives but found > nothing. > > I am currently in the process of a major upgrade from an existing system that > has been in collocation for three years, openbsd 3.5 with Pentium 3 hardware > an

Large Drive issues / question

2006-02-17 Thread Vincent Meanie
I have reviewed many faq's and searched the mailing list archives but found nothing. I am currently in the process of a major upgrade from an existing system that has been in collocation for three years, openbsd 3.5 with Pentium 3 hardware and 400gb total storage. The system hardware repl