x3550 ServeRAID-8k and FBSD 7, group limit

[Chris St Denis]

It does exit....eventually. It just takes a ridiculously long time. That 
is Fixed in 7-STABLE so should be fine in 7.1 as well.


Gian Paolo Buono wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem when run
> /usr/local/sbin/arcconf GETCONFIG 1 LD
>
> Controllers found: 1
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Logical device information
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Logical device number 0
>    Logical device name                      : Drive 1
>    RAID level                               : 1
>    Status of logical device                 : Optimal
>    Size                                     : 69890 MB
>    Write-cache mode                         : Not supported
>    Partitioned                              : Yes
>    Protected by Hot-Spare                   : No
>    Bootable                                 : Yes
>    Failed stripes                           : No
>    --------------------------------------------------------
>    Logical device segment information
>    --------------------------------------------------------
>    Segment 0                                : Present (0,0)
>    Segment 1                                : Present (0,1)
>
>
>
> Command completed successfully.
>
> ^C
>
> the output of command is correct but don't exit and I must press control^C.
> I want exit without press control^C, have you suggestions to resolve this
> problem ?
>
> Bye Gian Paolo
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Chris St Denis <chris at smartt.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Ivan Voras wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Yury Michurin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> We are currently considering to purchase IBM x3550 with ServeRAID-8k, in
>>>> order to run FreeBSD 7 with RAID5,
>>>> but it is very unclear from what I've saw on the Internet, whether the
>>>> driver support on FreeBSD is stable enough for production use,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I've never had problems with it, and I didn't heard of any serious
>>> problems others had.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> aac driver doesn't seem to notice if a drive fails. You'll want to keep an
>> eye on with it arcconf run via crontab or something as a workaround. I use
>>
>>   /usr/local/sbin/arcconf GETCONFIG 1 LD | egrep '(name|Status)'
>>
>> Seems to work fine with FreeBSD other than that. Only other issue I've had
>> with it, is it takes about 4 minutes to load it's bios in post.
>>
>>     
>>>       
>>>> and I've left with many questions unanswered, with which I hope you'll be
>>>> kind to help me =)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1. Is FreeBSD supports the device right after install or I need to
>>>> recompile
>>>> the kernel?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> It's available by default. This is the aac driver:
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?aac
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> 2. Is tools for manage the RAID available? If no, how you rebuild the
>>>> array
>>>> on drive failure (and how to detect it)?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You can use the aaccli management tool :
>>> http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/aaccli/
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> aacli doesn't work with ServeRAID-8k. But sysutils/arcconf does. I think
>> it's read only tho.
>>
>>     
>>>       
>>>> I've just remember i had another unanswered question, not related to
>>>> x3550:
>>>> 3. When I've used FreeBSD 6.2, it had a limitation, that a user can be
>>>> member only of N groups (don't remember exactly, i think N = 15),
>>>> however i couldn't find any official documentation of that issue, nor if
>>>> it
>>>> still exists in FBSD 7, so is it? =)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> It still exists and AFAIK it won't be changed soon because of the need
>>> to support NFS. You could try raising the issue again on the current at list.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> --
>> Chris St Denis
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