Filesystem, RAID questions

2008-10-29 Thread Rich Fairbanks
Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD (and UNIX in general), and I have read through the handbook and various websites to gain some insight on this question, but haven't found a concrete solution yet, and I'm hoping you guys can help. I'm wanting to build a FreeBSD 7.0 based file server for a small/medium

Re: Filesystem, RAID questions

2008-10-29 Thread Chris St Denis
At 1TB the drive will take very long to fsck if the server ever crashes or looses power. If this is a problem you should look into using gjournal(8) Not sure off hand why it would be so slow, but keep in mind raid5 isn't particularly fast for writes Rich Fairbanks wrote: Hi, I'm new to