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Date:      Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:59:18 +0300
From:      "Yury Michurin" <yury.michurin@gmail.com>
To:        "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: x3550 ServeRAID-8k and FBSD 7, group limit
Message-ID:  <692c9a9f0809140959m5d82a8bagcd74f5a70df70ebf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <gaitl1$kh3$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <692c9a9f0809121334i21e9861bu9ecf6e890680636f@mail.gmail.com> <gaitl1$kh3$1@ger.gmane.org>

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First of all thank you for the replay =)
You have any idea what other alternatives I have for the group limit?

I want to implement a webserver that running under www/www, and can read
directory of user1/user1 (user/group)
by adding www to user1's group, so far so good, except the group limit =)

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Yury Michurin wrote:
> > We are currently considering to purchase IBM x3550 with ServeRAID-8k, in
> > order to run FreeBSD 7 with RAID5,
> > but it is very unclear from what I've saw on the Internet, whether the
> > driver support on FreeBSD is stable enough for production use,
>
> I've never had problems with it, and I didn't heard of any serious
> problems others had.
>
> > and I've left with many questions unanswered, with which I hope you'll be
> > kind to help me =)
> >
> >
> > 1. Is FreeBSD supports the device right after install or I need to
> recompile
> > the kernel?
>
> It's available by default. This is the aac driver:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?aac
>
> > 2. Is tools for manage the RAID available? If no, how you rebuild the
> array
> > on drive failure (and how to detect it)?
>
> You can use the aaccli management tool :
> http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/aaccli/
>
> > I've just remember i had another unanswered question, not related to
> x3550:
> > 3. When I've used FreeBSD 6.2, it had a limitation, that a user can be
> > member only of N groups (don't remember exactly, i think N = 15),
> > however i couldn't find any official documentation of that issue, nor if
> it
> > still exists in FBSD 7, so is it? =)
>
> It still exists and AFAIK it won't be changed soon because of the need
> to support NFS. You could try raising the issue again on the current@list.
>
>
>



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