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[Oliver Fromme]

Douglas Carmichael wrote:
 > Do you think that it could work well in an environment where it would  
 > be serving large audio/video files? (Would you want SAS drives in the  
 > server?)

FreeBSD will work very well for that kind of workload.
Be sure to read the usual tuning tips, e.g. the tuning(7)
manpage.  It might also be a good idea to ask on the -net
or -performance lists for specific advise.

For serving any kind of large files, you want your storage
to be as fast as possible.  Personally I would use a bunch
of very fast disks, formatted with UFS2 using a low inode
density (i.e. something like newfs -i 262144).  That will
also reduce fsck time considerably in the case of a crash.

You might even want to play with larger bsize/fsize values
(e.g. setting both to 16k so you won't get fragments).

Best regards
   Oliver

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