Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:58:40 -0700 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@sigbus.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vinum/Fsck 1TB filesystem Message-ID: <20001016105840.C20902@sigbus.com> In-Reply-To: <20001014133853.D5353@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20001012113054.A9727@sigbus.com> <20001013131107.M2593@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20001013092656.B12492@sigbus.com> <20001014133853.D5353@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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> > 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
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