Subject: Re: Midrange machine + NetBSD. Comments?
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer.aydogan@googlemail.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/14/2006 02:19:43
I think "der Mouse" was working with large Filesystems.
Have a look at the tech-kern mailing list.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/01/30/0015.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/01/30/0016.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/01/03/0018.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2006/01/31/0006.html

Z.

2006/2/14, Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>:
> Zafer Aydogan writes:
> > I think the 4 TB Hard Disk space could be a problem.
> > Looks like NetBSD doesn't work well above 2 TB. But I don't know, if
> > that was only related to RAIDFRAME.
>
> Umm.... there might be filesystem issues, and there might be
> disklabel issues, but I'm unaware of any 2TB or 4TB problems with
> RAIDframe.  If you know of some, please let me know (or file a
> PR).  Thanks.
>
> Later...
>
> Greg Oster
>
> > 2006/2/14, Marc Tooley <netbsdMLpostNO@spam.quake.ca>:
> > >
> > > I'm picking up a nice machine for other testing purposes. It'll be
> > > midrange:
> > >
> > > Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885)
> > > LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X 8PT
> > > 8 x 250GB Maxtor SATA2/16MB/etc (for the MegaRAID)
> > > 1 x 250GB SATA2 for multibooted OSes
> > > 8 GB DDR400, ECC Registered RAM
> > > 2 x AMD Opteron 246
> > >
> > >
> > > ... and basically, I'm wondering whether there's anyone else running
> > > NetBSD on similar hardware with a useful degree of success?
> > >
> > > One specific: am I going to need to build a specialised kernel to pre=
p
> > > for the 8GB RAM? I seem to recall that sometimes memory above 2GB
> > > requires:
> > >
> > > REALBASEMEM
> > > REALEXTMEM
> > >
> > > ... does it still?
> > >
> > > Comments appreciated; note the Reply-To: current-users@netbsd.org.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
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