From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 9 16:11:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A8614BF7 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:11:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 127SPY-0000KR-00; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:10:16 -0800 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:10:16 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: dannyman Cc: "Randy A. Katz" , Steve Kaczkowski , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infortrend RAID / Extending FBSD filesystem? In-Reply-To: <20000108192355.Q16985@stumpy.dannyland.org> 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 Sat, 8 Jan 2000, dannyman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 07:13:38PM -0800, Randy A. Katz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was told that the Sentinel's are not out yet but I just tried a 3101-u2g > > and it works real well, but no way to monitor it remotely without doing > > serial stuff. > > > > Does anyone know of a SCSI-TO-SCSI controller which has snmp or something > > on the FreeBSD that can get a drive status reading? This will come in handy > > big time when I have 100 servers that have RAID in one room! > > Infortrend's web site had a java-based software thing that could monitor over > the serial port or SCSI bus and then send data back via SNMP to a Java > console. They also have textual counterparts to this software, it sounds > like. But considering the IFT controller understands TCP/IP, and can be configured to support PPP, that likely won't necessary for remote monitoring. ... > A question I thought I'd share with you ... can FreeBSD handle with the idea > of a disk/slice/partition being expanded, or would I have to newfs the entire > disk? ie, can I build on to a RAID and extend the file system that FreeBSD > sees? How messy is this, and should I consider a different OS for this > functionality? (Maybe I should be looking at a Sparc?) You can't extend an existing filesystem, but you can turn the additional space into a new filesystem. I've heard of rumors tools to extend UFS filesystems off-line. BTW, Solaris (Sparc is hardware, not software), can support extension of filesystems, but only if you buy the Veritas volume manager. > Thanks, > -danny > > -- > come.to/dannyman Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message