From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 20:07:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E1E1065678 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:07:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@smartt.com) Received: from barium.smartt.com (barium.smartt.com [69.67.187.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868D78FC1F for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:07:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@smartt.com) Received: from [69.31.174.220] (unknown [69.31.174.220]) by barium.smartt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 183FA10E427; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48CEC0A1.5040201@smartt.com> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:08:01 -0700 From: Chris St Denis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras References: <692c9a9f0809121334i21e9861bu9ecf6e890680636f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x3550 ServeRAID-8k and FBSD 7, group limit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:07:51 -0000 Ivan Voras wrote: > Yury Michurin wrote: > >> We are currently considering to purchase IBM x3550 with ServeRAID-8k, in >> order to run FreeBSD 7 with RAID5, >> but it is very unclear from what I've saw on the Internet, whether the >> driver support on FreeBSD is stable enough for production use, >> > > I've never had problems with it, and I didn't heard of any serious > problems others had. > aac driver doesn't seem to notice if a drive fails. You'll want to keep an eye on with it arcconf run via crontab or something as a workaround. I use /usr/local/sbin/arcconf GETCONFIG 1 LD | egrep '(name|Status)' Seems to work fine with FreeBSD other than that. Only other issue I've had with it, is it takes about 4 minutes to load it's bios in post. > >> and I've left with many questions unanswered, with which I hope you'll be >> kind to help me =) >> >> >> 1. Is FreeBSD supports the device right after install or I need to recompile >> the kernel? >> > > It's available by default. This is the aac driver: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?aac > > >> 2. Is tools for manage the RAID available? If no, how you rebuild the array >> on drive failure (and how to detect it)? >> > > You can use the aaccli management tool : > http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/aaccli/ > aacli doesn't work with ServeRAID-8k. But sysutils/arcconf does. I think it's read only tho. > >> I've just remember i had another unanswered question, not related to x3550: >> 3. When I've used FreeBSD 6.2, it had a limitation, that a user can be >> member only of N groups (don't remember exactly, i think N = 15), >> however i couldn't find any official documentation of that issue, nor if it >> still exists in FBSD 7, so is it? =) >> > > It still exists and AFAIK it won't be changed soon because of the need > to support NFS. You could try raising the issue again on the current@ list. > > > -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 ------------------------------------------- "Smart Internet Solutions For Businesses"