Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:35:07 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Mark Nipper <nipsy@tamu.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: twe driver, 1+ terabyte array, fdisk and disklabel Message-ID: <20030814163506.GA1806@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20030814041027.GA31497@ops.tamu.edu> References: <20030813215520.GH17627@ops.tamu.edu> <20030813222230.GA18044@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20030814041027.GA31497@ops.tamu.edu>
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--WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:10:27PM -0500, Mark Nipper wrote: > On 13 Aug 2003, Brooks Davis wrote: > > My workaround was to split the array into a 2 disk RAID1 and a 6 disk > > RAID5. Sysinstall will install on the small mirror and then you can use > > the RAID5 array raw. On some other systems, I'm not going to be booting > > from the arrays so I'll use the entire array as a large RAID5 volume > > without any partions. >=20 > Duh. I should have thought of something along these > lines. I just left my 1.75GB RAID-5 array in place and only took > a few gigabytes out of it for slice 1. Then I installed > everything into that for the base system. Worked like a charm. >=20 > Next I went ahead post installation and did cvsup and used > fdisk and disklabel (outside sysinstall of course) to create the > current, ridiculous slice and partition. Yay. :) > --- > /dev/twed0s2a 1.5T 2.0K 1.5T 0% /data Ahh, I though about that but got frustated with my other ideas not working and fell back to using two arrays. I may give that a shot since the system isn't in production yet. -- Brooks --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/O7o6XY6L6fI4GtQRAu4YAJ0fE5xSIIOInfT8sDFsi6yL2HY+DgCeK8iy NAHUtnhVm7ejpcn7uJ7HusI= =X75R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--
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