freebsd-8 support for dell R710 SATA raid-0

[krad]

On 29 March 2010 15:39, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> >
> >> FWIW CentOS won't see it either. Please help!
> >>
> >
> >
> > You'll need to use GPT partition instead of MBR if you're trying to boot
> > with a size > TB.  AKAIK, sysinstall doesn't support this, requiring a
> more
> > "hands on" installation.
> >
> > If you haven't considered it, it may be worthwhile to use ZFS.  In that
> > scenario, you'd want to the controller to present the disks as JBOD and
> use
> > RAIDZ.  Once again, sysinstall doesn't support this, but there are some
> good
> > FreeBSD wiki articles on it.
> >
>
> Opps, didn't read the RAID-0 bit, still try the GPT stuff, the 2TB MBR is a
> hard limit.  gstripe(8) would also be an option.  With you're RAID-0, were
> you looking of for read or write speed?  You can still use RAIDZ and
> outperform a straight stripe in most workloads if you make use of an ssd
> based L2ARC and a ZIL for read and writes respectively.
>
>
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> Adam Vande More
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I think his problem is he cant see a device to partition in the first place?