Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 20:23:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Tom <tom@sdf.com> Subject: Re: DPT install problem Message-ID: <XFMail.980522202333.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199805221824.LAA01141@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 22-May-98 Mike Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>> Currently it is pretty hard to bootstrap a new DPT system. You have
>> to
>> be able to build a kernel somewhere else as sysinstall will install a
>> non-DPT kernel, and you can't use sysinstall to allocate large DPT
>> partitions. I fear for the new user.
>
> New users are less than likely to be presented with such a situation.
>
> However, there are a couple of things that you personally (and other
> concerned users) can do to help the situation.
>
> - Contribute commentary (as you have), documentation and source/
> procedural fixes. Remeber that FreeBSD is a volunteer project -
> your support means that it will continue to improve.
> - Donate a DPT controller to our testing pool so that we can test
> with it. Chances are we can scrape enough disks together in one
> place to meet the 20GB mark if we have one.
I recently donated TWO DPT controllers and FIVE disk drives. They went to
two separate FreeBSD prominent figures, but still do not add up to 20GB.
I will add this sort of test to my regression testing. But, as I said, I
mostly test on 3.0-current and do not see this problem there.
An ajacent problem, is that fsck will fail on such filesystems.
The failure mode is fsck -p in /etc/rc. It does not have, by default
enough resources to run a large parallel fsck. I added the following to
/etc/rc:
swapon -a
if [ $1x = autobootx ]; then
echo Automatic reboot in progress...
+ ulimit -t unlimited
+ ulimit -f unlimited
+ ulimit -d unlimited
+ ulimit -s unlimited
+ ulimit -c unlimited
+ ulimit -m unlimited
+ ulimit -l unlimited
fsck -p
This (or its equivalent) may remove the problem from sysinstall.
Simon
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Sincerely Yours,
Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
770.265.7340
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