Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:50:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Kenneth Merry <ken@plutotech.com> To: tarkhil@mgt.msk.ru Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: on ccd and large disk array Message-ID: <199710211650.KAA18361@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199710211052.OAA12808@asteroid.mgt.msk.ru> from "Alexander B. Povolotsky" at "Oct 21, 97 02:52:01 pm"
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Alexander B. Povolotsky wrote... > Hello! > > We're making a (relatively) large disk array using ccd: 5 Micropolis HDDs, > 8.7 Gb each, i.e. about 40 Gb total. > > Does anyone know possible traps on our way? Is FFS as-is stable on 40 Gb > filesystems? What may we need to patch? You'll need to make sure that you edit login.conf and increase the limits on memory usage, etc., so that you can fsck the partition. > We're running FreeBSD 2.2.2, PPro-200, 128 Mb RAM, AHA 2940 Ultra and AHA > 2940 Ultra Wide (all HDDs in ccd are on Ultra Wide). I built a 60G ccd array a couple of months ago, it seemed to work just fine. I think it should work okay for you as well, but you might want to get input from some of the folks running news servers, etc., on big ccd arrays. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com
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