Fwd: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB
-- Forwarded message -- From: Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 13-Jun-2007 03:42 Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Enrique Ayesta Perojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There is a simmilar thread related to filesystems greater than 2TB. The subject is: Filesystems larger than 2TB I started the thread and from what I can gather you can not have a filesystem greater than 2TB on your boot device. Also you can not use sysinstall to create the partition if it is greater than 2TB. The problem happens when i try to use a RAID larger in size to 2 Terabyte, then the install program freezes and the machine reboots (it cannot find the disk). Split your drives. Make a RAID1 with 2 drives and install / /usr /var /tmp swap The second raid with the rest of the drives you should be able to create the partition manually, not from sysinstall. Any clue on how to solve it? FreeBSD can't be installed on disks larger than 2 TB? As far as I can tell no. As for creating the partition after you have a working system there were two methods mentioned. Was was using newfs against the raw device like newfs -s /dev/da0s2 The other one involves something called GPT, but seems like it is a more difficult method and it also seems like there is ongoing discussion about GPT. I also think, but am not sure, that it will be easier to have partitions greater than 2TB when ZFS is incorporated into the OS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Fwd: Fwd: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB
-- Forwarded message -- From: Kirk McKusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Jun-2007 16:49 Subject: Re: Fwd: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB To: Vlad GURDIGA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Enrique Ayesta Perojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe that there are some limitations on booting FreeBSD from filesystems bigger than 2Tb, but I know of no limitations on building non-root filesystems bigger than 2Tb. I have copied Kris Kennaway and the FreeBSD filesystem mailing list in the hope that someone can give a more precise answer than me. Kirk McKusick -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:16:45 +0300 From: "Vlad GURDIGA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB X-ASK-Info: Message Queued (2007/06/11 07:17:40) X-ASK-Info: Confirmed by User (2007/06/11 07:20:20) Hello, Wikipedia says that you contributed to development of FFS and I thought you might give a sure answer to a question about it. These days I saw a question on freebsd-questions mailing list that was left without a solution till now [see below]. Is there any chance that FFS can be extended to handle larger disks? Best regards. -- Forwarded message -- From: Enrique Ayesta Perojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11-Jun-2007 11:13 Subject: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hello I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on a HP DL320s. This server has a P400 RAID controller with 12 SATA disk drives attached to it. The RAID controller is supported in FreeBSD through the ciss driver. The problem happens when i try to use a RAID larger in size to 2 Terabyte, then the install program freezes and the machine reboots (it cannot find the disk). If the array is smaller than 2 Terabytes then there is no problem, the controller detects the disk and i can install FreeBSD on it. I have tried with i386 and AMD64 versions (the server has a Xeon processor supported by AMD64) Any clue on how to solve it? FreeBSD can't be installed on disks larger than 2 TB? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB
Enrique Ayesta Perojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on a HP DL320s. This server has a P400 RAID > controller with 12 SATA disk drives attached to it. The RAID controller is > supported in FreeBSD through the ciss driver. > > The problem happens when i try to use a RAID larger in size to 2 Terabyte, > then the install program freezes and the machine reboots (it cannot find the > disk). If the array is smaller than 2 Terabytes then there is no problem, the > controller detects the disk and i can install FreeBSD on it. I have tried > with i386 and AMD64 versions (the server has a Xeon processor supported by > AMD64) > > Any clue on how to solve it? FreeBSD can't be installed on disks larger than > 2 > TB? Well, the installer can't handle it, at any rate. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB
El Lunes, 11 de Junio de 2007 11:27, Andreas Rudisch escribió: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:13:04 +0200 > > Enrique Ayesta Perojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on a HP DL320s. This server has a P400 > > RAID controller with 12 SATA disk drives attached to it. The RAID > > controller is supported in FreeBSD through the ciss driver. > > > > The problem happens when i try to use a RAID larger in size to 2 > > Terabyte, then the install program freezes and the machine reboots (it > > cannot find the disk). If the array is smaller than 2 Terabytes then > > there is no problem, the controller detects the disk and i can install > > FreeBSD on it. I have tried with i386 and AMD64 versions (the server has > > a Xeon processor supported by AMD64) > > > > Any clue on how to solve it? FreeBSD can't be installed on disks larger > > than 2 TB? > > > > Thanks > > A quick google search revealed this: > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html > > > Andreas Yes, i knew that page, but as it seems that the project has been forgotten for quite a long time i thought there could be some other way to do it.. Thanks anyway ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:13:04 +0200 Enrique Ayesta Perojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on a HP DL320s. This server has a P400 RAID > controller with 12 SATA disk drives attached to it. The RAID controller is > supported in FreeBSD through the ciss driver. > > The problem happens when i try to use a RAID larger in size to 2 Terabyte, > then the install program freezes and the machine reboots (it cannot find the > disk). If the array is smaller than 2 Terabytes then there is no problem, the > controller detects the disk and i can install FreeBSD on it. I have tried > with i386 and AMD64 versions (the server has a Xeon processor supported by > AMD64) > > Any clue on how to solve it? FreeBSD can't be installed on disks larger than > 2 > TB? > > Thanks A quick google search revealed this: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.asc Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgpDEW6j2M2Mb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Installing FreeBSD on large disk >2TB
Hello I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 on a HP DL320s. This server has a P400 RAID controller with 12 SATA disk drives attached to it. The RAID controller is supported in FreeBSD through the ciss driver. The problem happens when i try to use a RAID larger in size to 2 Terabyte, then the install program freezes and the machine reboots (it cannot find the disk). If the array is smaller than 2 Terabytes then there is no problem, the controller detects the disk and i can install FreeBSD on it. I have tried with i386 and AMD64 versions (the server has a Xeon processor supported by AMD64) Any clue on how to solve it? FreeBSD can't be installed on disks larger than 2 TB? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
