From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 22 16:27:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13453 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 16:27:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13405; Fri, 22 May 1998 16:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02816; Fri, 22 May 1998 15:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805222221.PAA02816@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Tom Subject: Re: DPT install problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 May 1998 20:23:33 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:21:57 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > 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. Then we need some accountability from these prominent figures. Where is their feedback on this discussion? > 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: You should update the daemon class in /etc/login.conf. Can you verify that the current settings there (/usr/src/etc/login.conf) are adequate? (Note that a normal build does not update /etc, so you may be suffering needlessly...) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message