Subject: Re: LFS partition limitations
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Tracy J. Di Marco White <gendalia@iastate.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 09/30/2000 13:33:44
}On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 10:37:59AM -0500, Tracy J. Di Marco White wrote:
}> Things I didn't say... I'm using 1.5ALPHA2, on i386.
}> 
}> % newfs_lfs -m 0 raid0d
}> 87508.0MB in 87508 segments of size 1048576
}> Using 1 single indirect block(s) for inode 1
}> newfs_lfs: Multiple summary blocks in segment 1 not yet implemented
}> summary is 784 bytes.
}
}I guess it's a LFS limitation then :( Did you try playing with the newfs_lfs
}options ?

I just played with them a little, this worked:
lyra:/home/gendalia# newfs_lfs -m0 -B 2097152 raid0d
87508.0MB in 43754 segments of size 2097152
Using 1 single indirect block(s) for inode 1
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
16, 17920016, 35840016, 53760016, 71680016, 89600016, 107520016, 125440016, 143360016, 161280016 

I suspect the summary segment may have problems with something overflowing...
I'm learning a bit, but I don't understand it well yet.

Also, -m 0 doesn't work, it acted as if I'd used -m 10 (and the man page
for tunefs, which it refers to, says it can be set to 0).

lyra:/home/gendalia# df -i /stuff
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/raid0d    85129136      723 76615499     0%       3 681027261     0%   /stuff

I ran it again with -m 1, and it worked better:
lyra:/home/gendalia# newfs_lfs -m 1 -B 2097152 raid0d
87508.0MB in 43754 segments of size 2097152
Using 1 single indirect block(s) for inode 1
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
16, 17920016, 35840016, 53760016, 71680016, 89600016, 107520016, 125440016, 143360016, 161280016 

lyra:/home/gendalia# df -i /stuff
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/raid0d  85129136      765 84277079     0%       3 681026941     0%   /stuff

Tracy J. Di Marco White
Project Vincent Systems Manager
gendalia@iastate.edu