Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 15:53:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3 terabytes on one server? (was Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ?) Message-ID: <199605142053.PAA24893@luke.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960513180658.14554Y-100000@zot.io.org> from Brian Tao at "May 13, 96 06:08:48 pm"
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Brian Tao wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > > With the above setup it took 1 minute and 5 seconds to fsck my two disks. > > Do you actually see multiple fsck processes though? According to > the man page, there should be one per physical disk. I only see a > single fsck process, even with 9 disks online. On my file server here, I have an fstab setup similar to Amancio's (pass number 1 on /, all others 2) and, following the root fsck, all 14 of my drives begin to run together. Its a sight to behold (though I don't like having to behold it often :-) > > > I hope that you have multiple scsi controllers 8) I just have one > > adaptec 2940 which is adequate for my 2 scsi disks ... > > On the news server, yes (3 NCR controllers), but not on the FTP > server. I am running 2 NCR controllers and 1 Adaptec 3940 with two busses on that system. I seem to get pretty good parallelism. -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com Austin, TX
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