From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 22 12:51:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03072 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 12:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (fw1.enc.edu [207.95.42.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02972; Fri, 22 May 1998 12:51:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owensc@enc.edu) Received: from itsdsv2.enc.edu (itsdsv2.enc.edu [10.1.1.9]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21467; Fri, 22 May 1998 15:42:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:42:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: Simon Shapiro cc: Tom , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DPT install problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 May 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > On 21-May-98 Tom wrote: > > > > I'm trying to use the boot-dpt 2.2.6-RELEASE floppy to bootstrap a new > > DPT based system. However, sysinstall hangs after newfs'ing the > > filesystems. > > > > I'm using a 21GB array, with auto-defaults for the filesystems, so /usr > > is over 20GB in size. If I delete /usr and replace it with a 500MB > > filesystem, leaving the remaining space unallocated, sysinstall has no > > problem completing the newfs step. > > > > Anyone else had problems with sysinstall on a mid-sized array like > > this? > > Yup. Me :-) > But not on 3.0-current. I noticed that 2.2 does not like huge partitions, > but this is not consnstent. > > Simon This has me a bit nervous. This July I will be implementing an NFS server with a 60GB DTP-based array. My plan has been to use 2.2-stable... but perhaps 3.0-current is my only choice? Is this -stable problem understood, with a fix coming any time soon? Any other concerns that I should be sweating about as I'm planning on building an array of this size? (and it will probably double in size the following summer) Thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Network & Systems Administrator Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message