newfs options for .75TB RAID 5 unit
darren david
darren at 3x3x3.org
Wed Oct 19 00:55:29 PDT 2005
darren david wrote:
> hey all-
>
> in the somewhat pending case that i may not be able to retrieve my data
> from RAID 5 unit, I'm wondering what my best option is for blocksize on
> a .75TB RAID 5 volume. does the 64k RAID stripe size have any impact on
> these figures? It was previously set to the default( 16384 blocksize,
> 2048 fragment ) without any noticeable perf issues, but i'm just
> wondering if, well, size matters? ;)
>
> thanks,
> darren david
I should add that this .75 TB unit is in fact a 4x250GB drive array, for
.75TB of total space. not that it makes a difference, but more info
can't hurt.
cheers,
darren
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