Testing RAM

[Ryan Coleman]

Zane C.B. wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:11:32 -0500
> Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> Not that I am aware of.
>
> My big reason I would go with ZFS is it would make future updates
> easier as you can do it on the fly if the disks are just being added
> to a system.
>   
Ok, and since I have all 8 ports used on this SATA RAID controller I
won't worry about it.

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