From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 07:01:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3B016A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 07:01:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mattvirushome.dynu.com (h139-055-212-202.adsl.navix.net [139.55.212.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9851443D5A for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 07:01:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mattvirus@navix.net) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (mattvirus.net [209.0.51.9]) iA871FUF068314 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 01:01:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mattvirus@navix.net) Message-ID: <418F19B0.5000300@navix.net> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 01:01:04 -0600 From: matt virus User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Vinum 1TB filesystem limit questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:01:32 -0000 Hi All - with some help from people on this list, i managed to get vinum and raid5 all figured out! I had 4 * 160gb raid5 array running perfectly. When i ventured home this past weekend, i found another ATA controller and figured I'd change my raid5 array to have 8 drives. I cleaned the drives, reformatted and labeled to have a nice clean start, rewrote my config file and I get this: ------------------------------ 2day# newfs -U -O2 /dev/vinum/raid5 /dev/vinum/raid5: 1094291.2MB (2241108324 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 5955 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. with soft updates newfs: can't read old UFS1 superblock: read error from block device: Invalid argument ------------------------------- After some reading, found out this is a pesky problem a lot of people are having. Is there a solution for FBSD 5.2.1 running vinum or do I need to upgrade to 5.3 or some other release using geom-vinum? Does anybody know (for sure) if geom-vinum works with 1TB< filesystems? WORST case - i'll remove a drive and bump it down to under 1TB, but it seems like a waste. -matt -- Matt Virus ("veer-iss") http://www.mattvirus.net