Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 22:14:32 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: md panic (follow-up) Message-ID: <4.3.2.20001112220608.00d921b0@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20001016120244.00b5ccc0@207.227.119.2>
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At 12:33 PM 10/16/00 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >Scenario: > >Needed a larger md mount. Added the following line to the kernel config: > >options MD_NSECT=40000 > >Rebuilt >reboot > >Here's the interesting part, after the reboot, when md is configured and >mounted there is no problem, other than it only having 20,000 sectors and >not 40,000. Guess I forgot to MAKEDEV... > >umount /tmp_ports >kldunload md >sh MAKEDEV md0 >kldload md >disklabel -r -w md0 auto >newfs /dev/md0c >Panic! Finally re-visited this... Found that compiled in md support will not cause this panic and also uses the MD_NSECT value. Is there a reason why the kld version does not? If there is, then a disclaimer should be added to LINT: *** LINT.orig Wed Nov 8 19:32:39 2000 --- LINT Sun Nov 12 22:12:40 2000 *************** *** 674,677 **** --- 674,678 ---- # Specify double the default maximum size for malloc(9)-backed md devices. + # (this option will have no effect on the kld module) options MD_NSECT=40000 Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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