Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 16:36:56 -0500 From: Raul Zighelboim <rzig@verio.net> To: "'Charles Owens'" <owensc@enc.edu>, 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: <A03CD00C69B1D01195AB00A024ECEB1691F109@kaori.communique.net>
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My 0.02 cents: I did not installed FreeBSd on a DPT controller, but with an Adaptec controller. Nevertheless, I have a DPT controller on a system with a large fs (71780140 1K blocks). The system works, works well and has been up for 4 days as a very busy usenet news spool directory. This is running 2.2-RELENG from last sunday. As a sidebar; the DOS configuration software can only create arrays with up to 1 mbyte interleave. Is this a limitation on the hardware or the software ? Is (will there be) a way to create an array with a larger interleave (32 megs comes to mind). Thanks, Simon, for a job well done. ================================================== Raul Zighelboim rzig@verio.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Owens [SMTP:owensc@enc.edu] > Sent: Friday, May 22, 1998 2:43 PM > To: Simon Shapiro > Cc: Tom; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: DPT install problem > > 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, > --- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Charles N. Owens Email: > owensc@enc.edu > > http://www.enc.edu/~owensc > Network & Systems Administrator > Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a > man's > Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's > too dark to read." - Groucho Marx > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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