Large File System?

[Atom Powers]

On 8/8/06, Freminlins <freminlins at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 08/08/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thanks. I found my problem. (Sysinstall, aka fdisk, won't do more that
> 1.2TB.)
> > BTW, anybody have any good advice on how to manage a large file system?
 ...
> The single most important thing missing for me in FreeBSD is a journalling
> file system as I would use it on every box.

What exactly does a journaling file system give you? As I understand
it, it doesn't prevent corruption and it doesn't help you fix the
corruption when it occurs.

> You don't need to do anything more to manage big file systems per se. How
> big a file system are you going to create? What are you going to use it for?
> That might help with suggestions.

File server. It's a Promise VTrak M300p, SCSI attached storage.
Frankly I'm more worried about the system crashing than the storage
device ( UPS, battery pack for the RAID controller, redundant power
supplies ).

2.5TB file system, used mostly for archival storage. Of the initial
2.0TB of data, I expect only about 2-3% to change on a weekly basis.

I have another 1.5TB Fiber Channel cabinet that I plan on using to
store roaming profiles ( for MS Win uers) and home drives (for *nix
users).

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