From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 16 15:09:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27323 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:09:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kersur.net (mail.kersur.net [199.79.199.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27318 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:09:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from druber@mail.kersur.net) Received: from localhost (druber@localhost) by mail.kersur.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA12870; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:09:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:09:43 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Swartzendruber To: N cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID solutions? In-Reply-To: <981216231603.899A-100000@liquid.tpb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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