Filesystem, RAID Question

[Josh Paetzel]

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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Rich Fairbanks wrote:
> 
>> Now, this is how I set up the array. I installed the card, popped in the
>> drives. The card bios found the drives and allowed me to setup in RAID 5.
>> Then, FreeBSD booted and found the "disk" as da0. I want the entire
>> array to
>> be one big chunk of space. In other words, I don't need a bunch of
>> slices or
>> partitions (or DO I? I'm still very new to the whole slice vs. partition
>> concept)
> 

newfs /dev/da0 gives you a filesystem with softupdates turned off.
You'll want to enable them.  Either reinitialize the filesystem with
newfs -U or use tunefs to turn softupdates on.

3ware recently released new firmware for the 9650 and 9690 cards that
has given me some impressive jumps in application level performance.
You can flash the card from in the OS using tw_cli


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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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