From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 15:15:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F46A1500C; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:15:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA09181; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:44:46 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA89575; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:44:45 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990401084444.I413@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:44:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brian McGovern , thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MFS Sizes over 470MB? Can't seem to do it... References: <37023952.28B139D7@telspace.alcatel.fr> <199903311639.LAA02330@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903311639.LAA02330@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>; from Brian McGovern on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 11:39:31AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 31 March 1999 at 11:39:31 -0500, Brian McGovern wrote: > [For anyone tuning in late, I'm having a problem specifying MFS file systems > in excess of ~500MB without using -F, and I'm trying to understand why. The > one comment I have received so far is that max MFS size is a function of > total swap space. I'm now disagreeing...] > > Actually, it appears swap size is not an apparent function of MFS file systems. > Even at a 2GB of swap, MFSs over 507MB (+/-) won't work unless the -F option > is also given (although I'm not sure of the impact). Therefore, I don't know > if this qualifies as a bug or not... > > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > /dev/da0s1b 1048576 8552 1039896 1% Interleaved > /dev/da1s1b 1048576 8260 1040188 1% Interleaved > Total 2096896 16812 2080084 1% I think it's a bug. I've reported similar behaviour before. I'm running /tmp on mfs. Here's what I have: $ df /tmp Filesystem 1048576-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on mfs:272 30 0 28 0% /tmp $ pstat -s Device 1048576-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/wd0s1b 49 45 4 91% Interleaved /dev/sd0b 399 72 326 18% Interleaved Total 449 118 331 26% Note that all the values are in MB. I mount /tmp from /etc/rc.local, and specify /dev/sd0b as the swap partition, so it *should* give me 449 MB. Instead it gives me 30, with no explanation. If I umount it and mount it again, I get the full 449 MB (or I did last time I tried; that means stopping X, and I don't want to do that). I haven't been complaining about this, because I know that people will, with justification, ask me what I'm doing to fix it. But I'm sure it's a bug. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message