Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 10:29:52 +0200 From: Hendrik Hasenbein <hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> To: Shawn Ostapuk <flagg@slumber.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terabyte limit Message-ID: <3F599B00.9040006@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> In-Reply-To: <20030906050812.GA835@slumber.org> References: <20030906050812.GA835@slumber.org>
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Shawn Ostapuk wrote: > I have around 10 IDE drives which add up to over a terabyte. My goal > is to use them all as one big drive using any means necessary (I have a > backup so redundency is not needed, only space in this situation) > > I used to use vinum (and still would like to), i hit the terabyte limit > with UFS and was told i would have to upgrade to 5.1 in order to take > advantage of UFS2 and > 1TB filesystem -- so thats what i've done. > However I still seem to have the exactly same problems. I'm now trying > it on a whole new box and set of drives with the same set of problems. > > It doesn't matter if i use vinum or ccdconfig -- they all work fine and > predictably, until I make it larger than a terabyte then i get the > following on freebsd 5.1 RELEASE: > > with ccdconfig > > # ccdconfig -cv ccd0 16 none /dev/ad1s1e .. /dev/ad10s1e > ccd0: 10 componets (ad1s1e, .., ad10s1e), 2223956864 blocks interleaved > at 16 blocks > # newfs /dev/ccd0 > newfs: wtfs: 512 bytes at sector 2223956863: Invalid argument > > with vinum > > # newfs /dev/vinum/vinum0 > /dev/vinum/vinum0: 1085915.5MB (2223954992 sectors) block size 16384, > fragment size 2048 > using 5910 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. > newfs: can't read old UFS1 superblock: read error from block device: > Invalid arguement Try newfs -O 2 /dev/vinum/vinum0 to force ufs2. Hope that works. Hendrik
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