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Date:      Fri, 22 May 1998 15:42:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>
To:        Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
Cc:        Tom <tom@sdf.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: DPT install problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522144226.16082C-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980522140943.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>

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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:

> 
> On 21-May-98 Tom wrote:
> > 
> >   I'm trying to use the boot-dpt 2.2.6-RELEASE floppy to bootstrap a new
> > DPT based system.  However, sysinstall hangs after newfs'ing the
> > filesystems.
> > 
> >   I'm using a 21GB array, with auto-defaults for the filesystems, so /usr
> > is over 20GB in size.  If I delete /usr and replace it with a 500MB
> > filesystem, leaving the remaining space unallocated, sysinstall has no
> > problem completing the newfs step.
> > 
> >   Anyone else had problems with sysinstall on a mid-sized array like
> > this?
> 
> Yup.  Me :-)
> But not on 3.0-current.  I noticed that 2.2 does not like huge partitions,
> but this is not consnstent.
> 
> Simon

This has me a bit nervous.  This July I will be implementing an NFS server
with a 60GB DTP-based array.  My plan has been to use 2.2-stable... but
perhaps 3.0-current is my only choice?  Is this -stable problem
understood, with a fix coming any time soon?

Any other concerns that I should be sweating about as I'm planning on
building an array of this size?  (and it will probably double in size the
following summer)

Thanks,
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