From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 19:28: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88E1C37B401 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:28:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 20303 invoked by uid 100); 8 Oct 2001 02:28:04 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15297.3892.110144.826331@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 21:28:04 -0500 To: Ilia Chipitsine Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md's oddity In-Reply-To: <37647924@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ilia Chipitsine types: > system (4.4RC) simply hangs when I put more than 20Mb on the md-based > disk. It is Ok when I put no more than 20Mb, why ? > > in kernel configuration file I have: > > device md > options MD_NSECT=120000 Check the md man page. It notes that md disks are "severely limited in size". To get overcome those limits, you'll have to either use mfs, or a pre-loaded md disk. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message