From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 14:33:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E666D16A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:33:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (mail.goinet.com [208.207.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCAA43D1D for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:33:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from mail.goinet.com (localhost.goinet.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j58EXRn1014281; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:33:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) Received: from localhost (tshadwick@localhost) by mail.goinet.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id j58EXPCY014277; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:33:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tshadwick@goinet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.goinet.com: tshadwick owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:33:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Shadwick To: Frantisek Rysanek In-Reply-To: <42A717EB.8095.9574FF2F@localhost> Message-ID: <20050608093300.V23064@mail.goinet.com> References: <42A717EB.8095.9574FF2F@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mail.goinet.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 12TB GEOM stripe, newfs, then fsck: cannot alloc 768053748 bytes for blockmap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:33:41 -0000 Just curious, what happens if you run the fsck with -f? Since it isn't production I won't feel bad if it clobbers something. ;) On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Frantisek Rysanek wrote: > Dear everyone, > > this is not an important issue, but I'd like to ask anyway, > just in case the solution was obvious: > > I've bundled three 4TB RAID boxes using GEOM::stripe into a > single 12TB volume. I didn't partition it, I just created UFS > on it using newfs (a "dangerously dedicated" volume). > This is not a production setup, I'm just testing the hardware. > > I thought "fsck" would be a plausible benchmarking tool. > > -bash-2.05b# fsck_ufs /dev/stripe/data > ** /dev/stripe/data > cannot alloc 768053748 bytes for blockmap > > ***** FILE SYSTEM MARKED DIRTY ***** > > After a forced mount, the 12TB volume works fine. It just > can't be fsck'ed. > > The machine is a dual Xeon/Nocona + i7520, with 2 GB of RAM, > running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE with an SMP kernel. > > Any ideas are welcome :-) > > Frank Rysanek > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >