From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 6 01:30:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71FD316A4BF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 01:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com (mailout03.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D9F743FF7 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 01:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from fwd06.aul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19vYSH-0004m0-02; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 10:30:01 +0200 Received: from techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (EGW1poZOrezP68VMhoX9ohQf3gVg+OzrptHHe-AXoBVmbYTA6D5s62@[217.82.85.197]) by fmrl06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19vYS2-0EXfMm0; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 10:29:46 +0200 Message-ID: <3F599B00.9040006@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 10:29:52 +0200 From: Hendrik Hasenbein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Ostapuk References: <20030906050812.GA835@slumber.org> In-Reply-To: <20030906050812.GA835@slumber.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Seen: false X-ID: EGW1poZOrezP68VMhoX9ohQf3gVg+OzrptHHe-AXoBVmbYTA6D5s62@t-dialin.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terabyte limit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 08:30:05 -0000 Shawn Ostapuk wrote: > I have around 10 IDE drives which add up to over a terabyte. My goal > is to use them all as one big drive using any means necessary (I have a > backup so redundency is not needed, only space in this situation) > > I used to use vinum (and still would like to), i hit the terabyte limit > with UFS and was told i would have to upgrade to 5.1 in order to take > advantage of UFS2 and > 1TB filesystem -- so thats what i've done. > However I still seem to have the exactly same problems. I'm now trying > it on a whole new box and set of drives with the same set of problems. > > It doesn't matter if i use vinum or ccdconfig -- they all work fine and > predictably, until I make it larger than a terabyte then i get the > following on freebsd 5.1 RELEASE: > > with ccdconfig > > # ccdconfig -cv ccd0 16 none /dev/ad1s1e .. /dev/ad10s1e > ccd0: 10 componets (ad1s1e, .., ad10s1e), 2223956864 blocks interleaved > at 16 blocks > # newfs /dev/ccd0 > newfs: wtfs: 512 bytes at sector 2223956863: Invalid argument > > with vinum > > # newfs /dev/vinum/vinum0 > /dev/vinum/vinum0: 1085915.5MB (2223954992 sectors) block size 16384, > fragment size 2048 > using 5910 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. > newfs: can't read old UFS1 superblock: read error from block device: > Invalid arguement Try newfs -O 2 /dev/vinum/vinum0 to force ufs2. Hope that works. Hendrik