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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!chippy.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!news.interactive.net!newonyx.interactive.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Mauritz <ritz@interactive.spamthat.net> Subject: Re: Virtual file systems (striping) on BSDI 3.0x86? X-Nntp-Posting-User: ritz Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Lines: 55 Message-ID: <EArnpw.4nG@news.interactive.net> References: <sinkr.861999718@tempermental> <ph-ya023280002704971634050001@news3.his.com> <5ma425$ar$1@news.thecia.net> X-Trace: 864613075/5374 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: newonyx.interactive.net Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 02:17:56 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6908 matt <casper@rage.hostile.net> wrote: :P~Paul Heller <ph@his.com> wrote: :P~> In article <sinkr.861999718@tempermental>, sinkr@tempermental.cbl.cees.edu :P~> (Robert Sink) wrote: :P~> > We are currently trying to migrate from BSDI 2.1 to 3.0 for our :P~> > news server. :P~> > :P~> > What we would like to do is utilize multiple 4G HDs and perhaps a :P~> > 4 or 12k stripe to 'load-balance' access over multiple spindles :P~> > as well as have one large news partition versus several little :P~> > disks mounted at various points. :P~> > :P~> > My question is that I have read the manual and the BSDI home page :P~> > and nothing is mentioned about it, so I'm assuming that it is not :P~> > natively supported. If it is great -- tell me how. :P~> See http://www.bsdi.com/support/faq/BSD_OS-3.0/splice-driver.etx ... did :P~> this on one of our news machines here, and it works very well - acts just :P~> like one big physical drive, is very fast, and has been rock-solid (knock :P~> on wood to keep pixies away ...). :P~> -- :P~> ph@his.com :P~> http://www.his.com :P~I followed those instructions when setting up my spool, and we are getting :P~some weird errors. :P~BSDi 3.0 :P~5 four Gig drives for the spool :P~the system bins are on a an IDE drive :P~We have a BusLogic BT-946C controller which all of the SCSI drives are on. :P~We get these errors :P~sd0: sn 2108290: media error: unrecovered read error (41 retries) :P~sd0: retry 0 :P~sd0: sn 2108290: media error: unrecovered read error (41 retries) :P~sd0: retry 0 :P~sd0: sn 2108290: media error: unrecovered read error (41 retries) Generally speaking, media errors are caused by the SCSI device having problems. I'd suspect one of your drives is going south or isn't being cooled adequately. I've had similar problems when the cooling fan on an external enclosure failed. Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: Director, Internet Operations | finger/mail info@interactive.net OR IBS Interactive, Inc. | http://www.interactive.net/ ritz@interactive.net |