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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