Subject: Re: 1.6_STABLE newfs panics with huge (~ 1 TB) partition
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/21/2002 22:38:43 
>>>>> "Manuel" == Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> writes:

    >> After tweaking down my raid's partition size a bit lower than 1
    >> TB (Is it still the ffs partition size limit?):

    >> 4 partitions:
    >> #        size    offset     fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
    >> a: 2147482624         0     4.2BSD   2048 16384    40   # (Cyl.    0 - 74898*)
    >> d: 2147482624         0     4.2BSD      0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 74898*)

    >> # newfs /dev/raid1a 
    >> Floating point exception (core dumped)

    Manuel> Did you try to change the newfs parameters ?

Yes, I set fsize/bsize back to standard 1024/8192 and played with
newfs '-c' option: 'newfs -c 3 /dev/raid1a' worked then...

-> Some computation problem in '-c's automatic calculation?

Markus.