From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 8: 6:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (termroom.bsdcon.org [206.55.247.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB18E37B4C5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9HB0rO03798; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:00:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:00:53 -0400 From: Greg Lehey To: Charles Henrich Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum/Fsck 1TB filesystem Message-ID: <20001017070053.A3194@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20001012113054.A9727@sigbus.com> <20001013131107.M2593@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001013092656.B12492@sigbus.com> <20001014133853.D5353@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <20001016105840.C20902@sigbus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001016105840.C20902@sigbus.com>; from henrich@sigbus.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:58:40AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 16 October 2000 at 10:58:40 -0700, Charles Henrich wrote: >>> I finally remembered fsck -b (duh), and it fsck'd off the alternate block >>> just fine, corrected a single file error. When I went and touched the >>> same file however, the same error conditions occured, and another reboot. >> >> Panic? > > No, just the hang again. FreeBSD never panic'd. That filesystem went into a > hung state. It would be interesting to see the output of 'px lax' if you can get it at this point. Also, you could do this before starting: # vinum debug 8 When the system hangs, then do: # vinum info -V > file file will then contain information about the last requests issued to the volume. >> Yes, I'd agree. As I said, you're pushing the limit, and you may just be >> the first person to ever try to use a 1 TB file system. > > I was hoping to put together a 2TB system, didnt realize FreeBSD > didnt support that as of yet. Is anyone working on a journaled file > system for FreeBSD? Not currently. At the moment I'm at a storage systems workshop where I've heard nice things about XFS, but nobody is currently working on it for FreeBSD. > (Fsck'ing 1TB takes a looong time :) It won't when you use the snapshot code which is currently under development. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message