From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 16 14:54:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25328 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:54:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from liquid.tpb.net (drum-n-bass.party-animals.com [194.134.94.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25321 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:54:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from niels@bakker.net) Received: from localhost (niels@localhost) by liquid.tpb.net (8.9.1a/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id XAA01217; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:54:10 +0100 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 23:54:09 +0100 (CET) From: N To: Dan Swartzendruber cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID solutions? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <981216231603.899A-100000@liquid.tpb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Okay, as the person who started this: I still have the concern that if I > throw 20+ drives on the system, will FreeBSD be able to cope with a large > number of drives like this? Like I said, I have 20 disks spread over 4 controllers. Running 3.0-CURRENT, so with CAM. The only caveat I encountered was that boot.flp doesn't have enough inodes free to create all /dev entries on the ram disk, so I had to do the initial install with two of the three external SCSI casings disconnected from their respective controllers. (Jordan is aware of the problem, but I agree with him that it's not a situation many people will find themselves in. It'll probably be fixed at the same time when the GENERIC kernel exceeds one floppy...) 'dmesg' output is longish, with all the softupdates filesystem messages it's almost large enough to wrap the ring buffer. -- Niels. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message