Vinum 1TB filesystem limit questions

matt virus mattvirus at navix.net
Mon Nov 8 01:46:03 PST 2004


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
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> Solid State Logic
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> 
> 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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