Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:07:16 -0600 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Brian Anderson" <bunicula@rcn.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: softupdates and other disk questions Message-ID: <065401bf4d9a$7476ac60$d2630a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.9912231224530.24742-100000@charon.diabolis.net>
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Hi,
For softupdates try:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/sys/contrib/softupdate
s/README
And for the other thing, all I can tell you its that everything that linux
does, FreeBSD can do it but better, you should try it, even if you find some
of the problems like you are having with linux, after you try it you will
never go back to linux, for your 4 disks, you can try RAID 5 support
(http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html), its in 3.4 RELEASE; for the transfers,
you will find FreeBSD faster & more stable than anything, for configuring
the disks, its a very simple thing once you know how to do it.
My best advice would be "Try it & Love it"
Merry Xmas
Ales
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Anderson <bunicula@rcn.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 11:42 AM
Subject: softupdates and other disk questions
>
> hello,
>
> first, the easy part: can someone point me to a url for softupdates
> information?
>
>
> now it gets a bit more fun:
>
>
> i've been a linux user for a couple of years, but have started to hit
> areas that i'm not really very happy with, like NFS. i'm accessing a linux
> NFS server fairly heavily (it's got 48 gig of storage, over 4 IDE hard
> disks, exporting 8 filesystems to 3 other unix machines, doing regular
> transfers of 500ish meg files.)
>
> i'm leaning toward moving it to BSD, but have a couple of concerns. i had
> to seriously fight with the system to get it to boot from the scsi hard
> disk, and use the 4 ide for storage.
>
> it's an intel se440bx-2 motherboard, with an adaptec 2940UA scsi
> adapter. the scsi bios sees the scsi disk as the primary device just fine,
> and boots from it. but LILO didn't like the setup, saying that the scsi
> drive wasn't the primary boot disk. so i had to specify in the lilo
> configuration
>
> disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x80
> disk=/dev/hda
> bios=0x81
>
> etc... for each drive. then lilo would boot and install correctly.
>
> the next problem was with fdisking the ide drives. for whatever reason,
> when any scsi disk is present, fdisk detected the primary ide drive as 75
> gig (not usable though :( ). unplug the scsi drive, fdisk would work fine.
> the tape and cdrom drives, also scsi, had no issues with the ide
> bus. i've never had any other os on this machine, so i don't know if its a
> hadrware problems or a linux problem... the bios seems to see everything
> fine, so i'm thinking linux) so this kludge was to force the c/h/s info
> during fdisk. so it still probes as a 75 gig drive, but works correclty as
> a 13
>
> the last issue is that i'm using linux software raid on 2 of the
> drives. so i know i'll have to dump everything to a multi volume tape set
> then restore it all once the bsd box is up.
>
>
> but, back to the matter at hand. i'm confident that the nfs server would
> work better under freebsd. but i don't know the system well enough to deal
> with all of these kinds of problems, should they arise. particularly the
> ide/scsi disk hack...
>
> does anyone have any thoughts? is it a linux problem? will freebsd just go
> right on? i don't have the resources to set up another machine to test
> this all out on, and really don't want to take the whole thing down, find
> out that freebsd won't work, then have to build it all up again.
>
>
>
> thanks for any input...
>
>
>
>
> brian
>
>
>
>
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