From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 10:59: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sigbus.com (sigbus.com [207.211.10.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4873E37B66F for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:59:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by sigbus.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA21171; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:58:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from henrich) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:58:40 -0700 From: Charles Henrich To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vinum/Fsck 1TB filesystem Message-ID: <20001016105840.C20902@sigbus.com> References: <20001012113054.A9727@sigbus.com> <20001013131107.M2593@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001013092656.B12492@sigbus.com> <20001014133853.D5353@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20001014133853.D5353@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1024/F7 FD C7 3A F5 6A 23 BF 76 C4 B8 C9 6E 41 A4 4F Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Well right now there is data on the drives. Setting it up the first time > > through went flawlessly. I used vinum -stripe to stripe across the two > > 512GB drives, the newfs'd the bad boy and mounted it up. We used it for > > several hours when during the creation of a file write the system puked > > badly. > > I'd like more information on "puked badly". If you had a panic, I'd like to > see the dump. I'm also curious about your 512 GB drives; that's much larger > than any real disk I know of. Are these real disks or a RAID controller? These are external raid units.. > > I finally remembered fsck -b (duh), and it fsck'd off the alternate block > > just fine, corrected a single file error. When I went and touched the > > same file however, the same error conditions occured, and another reboot. > > Panic? No, just the hang again. FreeBSD never panic'd. That filesystem went into a hung state. > Yes, I'd agree. As I said, you're pushing the limit, and you may just be > the first person to ever try to use a 1 TB file system. I was hoping to put together a 2TB system, didnt realize FreeBSD didnt support that as of yet. Is anyone working on a journaled file system for FreeBSD? (Fsck'ing 1TB takes a looong time :) -Crh Charles Henrich Manex Visual Effects henrich@sigbus.com http://www.sigbus.com/~henrich To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message