Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:09:43 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Swartzendruber <druber@kersur.net> To: N <niels@bakker.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID solutions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981216180822.11283B-100000@mail.kersur.net> In-Reply-To: <981216231603.899A-100000@liquid.tpb.net>
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On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, N wrote: > > 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. Do you really need 4 controllers? We have two currently (with 10 disks present). > (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...) Does this cause the excess disks to not be visible? I think I discovered this myself, albeit with fewer drives than 20... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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