Filesystems larger than 2TB?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:01:54 -0400
Francisco Reyes <lists at stringsutils.com> wrote:

> Zane C.B. writes:
> 
> > In such a situation, I would seperate the data drives and the OS
> > drives, instead of having them in one big raid. This makes it a
> > lot more manageable.
> 
> Ok. Let me see if I understand. 
> So I could take say 2 drives and make it raid 1. T
> hen make another raid with the rest of the drives and I would then
> newfs -s the raw partition?
> 
> I also think 3ware controllers allow to take part of a raid display
> it separately, but still only have one raid. Will check before I do
> my next "large" machine.

Yeah, something along those lines. I've found it really makes things
nicer in the long run. That way you can easily move the data drives
around seperate of OS. It makes upgrading a lot smoother process as
well.