Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 22:47:28 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Todorov <todorov@paladin.bulgarpress.com> Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org, ulf@Alameda.net Subject: Re: HP DL385G1 Smart Array 6i AMD64 FBSD 6.3 Message-ID: <20080504054727.GX26105@evil.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <481CE2F9.3050109@paladin.bulgarpress.com> References: <480FC4FB.5020709@paladin.bulgarpress.com> <4818FFB8.90900@paladin.bulgarpress.com> <481AA213.1090103@delphij.net> <481AC6E1.6070109@ultra-secure.de> <20080502170130.GU26105@evil.alameda.net> <20080503142435.GA2923@exuma.irbs.com> <20080503173623.GV26105@evil.alameda.net> <481CD51A.3050906@paladin.bulgarpress.com> <20080503214649.GW26105@evil.alameda.net> <481CE2F9.3050109@paladin.bulgarpress.com>
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On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:11:05AM +0300, Todorov wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ulf Zimmermann ??????: > | On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:11:54AM +0300, Todorov wrote: > |> |>> Backup, yes do it. But here is how to do it: > |> |>> > |> |>> hpacucli ctrl slot=0 ld 1 add drives=allunassigned > |> |>> > |> |>> This should add the additional drives to your first logical drive and > |> |>> expand it. Whenever I do this, I reboot now so FreeBSD sees the > |> |>> new larger physical disk. > |> |>> > |> |>> In most cases now you have to update the partition table, either > |> |>> by addition another slice or changing the size of your FreeBSD slice. > |> |>> > |> |>> If the file system you want to grow is the last one in disklabel, you > |> |>> can use disklabel to change the size of it, also the total line (c:) > |> |>> needs to grow. > |> |>> > |> |>> And then finally you can use growfs on the file system. > |> |> Growfs on 6.X will destroy your UFS2, and mabye UFS1, filesystem. > |> |> The patch in bin/115174 appeared to fix growfs but I recently had > |> |> a file system related panic on a machine with a growfs expanded > |> |> filesystem. > |> |> > |> |> reboot after panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted > |> |> > |> |> That panic may be unrelated to growfs but that machine is the only > |> |> 6.3 machine I have in production with a grown file system. The > |> |> 800G fileystem had a few percent used when it paniced. It was being > |> |> brought into service as a Cyrus IMAP replica. > |> |> > |> |> A working growfs was a requirement for me to move from rock solid > |> |> 4.11. It would really be nice if the filesystem guru's could take > |> |> a look at the growfs problem. > |> |> > |> |> John Capo > |> |> Tuffmail.com > |> | I just recently did a growfs in the describe method on: > |> | > |> | log01 ulf /home/ulf > uname -a > |> | FreeBSD log01.autc.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 18 > |> | 06:32:28 PDT 2006 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LOG i386 > |> | > |> | That machine had a pair of 72GB drives, I swapped one drive at a > time to > |> | 300GB. Then ran "hpacucli ctrl sl=0 ld=1 modify size=max", rebooted > into > |> | linux (small partition on the server) to use the fdisk there, rebooted > |> | back into FreeBSD, it saw the larger drive, larger partition. Then I > |> | edited "disklabel -e /dev/da0s4" to edit slice c: and f:. Ran growfs, > |> fsck. > |> | and voila I had more space for my logs. > |> | > |> > |> I've checked today and what was before - 2 disks in Logical RAID 1+0 > |> drive. By default they were mirrored as they are not 4. Today I've added > |> two more (4 total) and make EXPAND to the logical drive. This process > |> finished but the BIOS tool and the FBSD see the size of one disk, not > |> two as it should be. > |> > |> 4x146GB in RAID 1+0, FBSD see 136GB as /dev/da0 (shown in the message > |> during boot). Also the BIOS says logical drive is 136G and is ok. > |> > |> Should do EXTEND of the logical drive also - is this an option? > | > | hpacucli ctrl sl=0 array A show > | hpacucli ctrl sl=0 ld 1 show > | > | That will show the current status. If you are going to just create a new > | partition/file system anyways, you don't have to extent, you could just > | create a new logical disk, it would show as da1. To do that: > | > | hpacucli ctrl sl=0 array A create type=ld raid=1 > | > | That will use whatever space is available in array A (if the current > status > | is that the two new drives have been added to array A). > | > | Of in case the drives are still seperate you can create an array B. > | > > Let me ask since I got confused... > > 4 disks in RAID 1+0 (let's assume I don't want to extend the FS) should > be seen as two RAID 1 's ? > > Should I see the RAID 0 somewhere also? > > Can you please provide some output of the dmesg or camcontrol inquiry . What does "hpacucli ctrl sl=0 array A show" show? -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
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