From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 14 13:55:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA10232 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 13:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [206.224.65.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10215 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 13:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA24893; Tue, 14 May 1996 15:53:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox Message-Id: <199605142053.PAA24893@luke.pmr.com> Subject: Re: 3 terabytes on one server? (was Re: more than 32 scsi disks on a single machine ?) To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 15:53:23 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Brian Tao at "May 13, 96 06:08:48 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Tao wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > > With the above setup it took 1 minute and 5 seconds to fsck my two disks. > > Do you actually see multiple fsck processes though? According to > the man page, there should be one per physical disk. I only see a > single fsck process, even with 9 disks online. On my file server here, I have an fstab setup similar to Amancio's (pass number 1 on /, all others 2) and, following the root fsck, all 14 of my drives begin to run together. Its a sight to behold (though I don't like having to behold it often :-) > > > I hope that you have multiple scsi controllers 8) I just have one > > adaptec 2940 which is adequate for my 2 scsi disks ... > > On the news server, yes (3 NCR controllers), but not on the FTP > server. I am running 2 NCR controllers and 1 Adaptec 3940 with two busses on that system. I seem to get pretty good parallelism. -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com Austin, TX