Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 03:45:48 -0600 From: matt virus <mattvirus@navix.net> To: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Vinum 1TB filesystem limit questions Message-ID: <418F404C.5060707@navix.net> In-Reply-To: <418F3D3A.6040805@solid-state-logic.com> References: <418F19B0.5000300@navix.net> <418F3D3A.6040805@solid-state-logic.com>
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same exact error. Tried without, tried -O 2, no dice! :-)
-matt
Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Matt
>
> what happens if you drop the -O flag. Newfs will default to ufs2 in the
> 5.x versions. or even do '-O 2'???
>
>
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> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> matt virus wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
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