Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:47:02 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x3550 ServeRAID-8k and FBSD 7, group limit Message-ID: <gaitl1$kh3$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <692c9a9f0809121334i21e9861bu9ecf6e890680636f@mail.gmail.com> References: <692c9a9f0809121334i21e9861bu9ecf6e890680636f@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig212BF97C1EECD3D887752D2D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Yury Michurin wrote: > We are currently considering to purchase IBM x3550 with ServeRAID-8k, i= n > order to run FreeBSD 7 with RAID5, > but it is very unclear from what I've saw on the Internet, whether the > driver support on FreeBSD is stable enough for production use, I've never had problems with it, and I didn't heard of any serious problems others had. > and I've left with many questions unanswered, with which I hope you'll = be > kind to help me =3D) >=20 >=20 > 1. Is FreeBSD supports the device right after install or I need to reco= mpile > the kernel? It's available by default. This is the aac driver: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?aac > 2. Is tools for manage the RAID available? If no, how you rebuild the a= rray > on drive failure (and how to detect it)? You can use the aaccli management tool : http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/aaccli/ > I've just remember i had another unanswered question, not related to x3= 550: > 3. When I've used FreeBSD 6.2, it had a limitation, that a user can be > member only of N groups (don't remember exactly, i think N =3D 15), > however i couldn't find any official documentation of that issue, nor i= f it > still exists in FBSD 7, so is it? =3D) It still exists and AFAIK it won't be changed soon because of the need to support NFS. You could try raising the issue again on the current@ lis= t. --------------enig212BF97C1EECD3D887752D2D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjM+bYACgkQldnAQVacBcik4gCaAswZ4I5yv5c5dfosN4sUydXy JboAn3zxSzh6NLBhw51H74Nfz+2yqHYn =N4ZZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig212BF97C1EECD3D887752D2D--
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