Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:08:12 -0700 From: Shawn Ostapuk <flagg@slumber.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: terabyte limit Message-ID: <20030906050812.GA835@slumber.org>
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I have around 10 IDE drives which add up to over a terabyte. My goal is to use them all as one big drive using any means necessary (I have a backup so redundency is not needed, only space in this situation) I used to use vinum (and still would like to), i hit the terabyte limit with UFS and was told i would have to upgrade to 5.1 in order to take advantage of UFS2 and > 1TB filesystem -- so thats what i've done. However I still seem to have the exactly same problems. I'm now trying it on a whole new box and set of drives with the same set of problems. It doesn't matter if i use vinum or ccdconfig -- they all work fine and predictably, until I make it larger than a terabyte then i get the following on freebsd 5.1 RELEASE: with ccdconfig # ccdconfig -cv ccd0 16 none /dev/ad1s1e .. /dev/ad10s1e ccd0: 10 componets (ad1s1e, .., ad10s1e), 2223956864 blocks interleaved at 16 blocks # newfs /dev/ccd0 newfs: wtfs: 512 bytes at sector 2223956863: Invalid argument with vinum # newfs /dev/vinum/vinum0 /dev/vinum/vinum0: 1085915.5MB (2223954992 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 5910 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. newfs: can't read old UFS1 superblock: read error from block device: Invalid arguement If i remove any single drive in the configuration making it < 1TB it works fine, i can newfs and what not. Add it back up to >1TB and newfs breaks. I've heard vinum has no practical limits, and should work fine beyond a terabyte, and i've spoken directly with people who have newfs'd over a terabyte using hardware raid (3ware) -- so I'm just baffled. Am I doing something wrong or is this configuration just simply not supported yet? It may be intestersting to note if I do new newfs -N for testing i get no errors and the output looks great. Any suggestions or confirmation on weather or not this should work or not or alternative ideas? 12channel IDE raid controller is about $700 more than i got right now :) Thanks for any help -- been driving me nuts for a while now.
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