Raid Array Over 2Tb on Samba

Philip Hallstrom freebsd at philip.pjkh.com
Tue May 3 13:15:11 PDT 2005


> On May 3, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Richard Collyer wrote:
>> I plan on building a raid array of 8*400GB disks raid 5. Now as win2k cant 
>> support partitions over 2tb and I right in thinking that this is for the 
>> local machine only and that over samba (array in FreeBSD 5.4 machine [when 
>> it comes out]) it should be able to see all space or will I have to carve 
>> it up.
>
> I would not recommend trying to use greater than 2GB partitions via Samba, or
                                                    ^^^

You meant 2TB not 2GB right?  Cause I've been using samba with 8GB shares 
for a looong time...  I'm guessing so, just thought we should be sure :)


> even natively, at this time.  There are significant issues, such as being 
> able to run fsck against such large partitions without fsck's memory usage 
> consuming excessive resources.
>
> If you need to set up such a massive NAS fileserver, you really ought to 
> consider dedicated products from companies like Auspex and NetApp.  Another 
> alternative might be an Apple Xserve RAID with Xsan, but this doesn't have 
> the track record of my earlier suggestions.
>
> -- 
> -Chuck
>
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