Testing RAM

[Ryan Coleman]

Zane C.B. wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:45:20 -0500
> Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote:
>
>   
>> How would I go about slamming the RAM in testing? I was figuring
>> I'd drop from 4GB to 1GB and just push the board with the same cp
>> -rvn commands I've been running in an attempt to populate my 7TB
>> RAID5.
>>
>> Also, am I using the wrong FS for the RAID? I partitioned it with
>> gpt (1 large slice) and formatted it with newfs but is there
>> another way? A better way? I read about ZFS recently but I am sure
>> the speed of reading from a RAID5 is lost with it's redundancies.
>>     
>
> For something that large, ZFS would be my choice
I take it that's not something I can do after the fact, right? I am not 
looking forward to redoing 1.6TB in file copying a second time