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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-feed1.tiac.net!news.thecia.net!not-for-mail From: matt <casper@rage.hostile.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Virtual file systems (striping) on BSDI 3.0x86? Date: 25 May 1997 19:31:16 GMT Organization: Hostile Networks. Lines: 55 Message-ID: <5ma425$ar$1@news.thecia.net> References: <sinkr.861999718@tempermental> <ph-ya023280002704971634050001@news3.his.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rage.hostile.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970409; i486 Linux 2.0.30] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6906 Paul Heller <ph@his.com> wrote: > In article <sinkr.861999718@tempermental>, sinkr@tempermental.cbl.cees.edu > (Robert Sink) wrote: > > We are currently trying to migrate from BSDI 2.1 to 3.0 for our > > news server. > > > > What we would like to do is utilize multiple 4G HDs and perhaps a > > 4 or 12k stripe to 'load-balance' access over multiple spindles > > as well as have one large news partition versus several little > > disks mounted at various points. > > > > My question is that I have read the manual and the BSDI home page > > and nothing is mentioned about it, so I'm assuming that it is not > > natively supported. If it is great -- tell me how. > See http://www.bsdi.com/support/faq/BSD_OS-3.0/splice-driver.etx ... did > this on one of our news machines here, and it works very well - acts just > like one big physical drive, is very fast, and has been rock-solid (knock > on wood to keep pixies away ...). > -- > ph@his.com > http://www.his.com I followed those instructions when setting up my spool, and we are getting some weird errors. BSDi 3.0 5 four Gig drives for the spool the system bins are on a an IDE drive We have a BusLogic BT-946C controller which all of the SCSI drives are on. We get these errors sd0: sn 2108290: media error: unrecovered read error (41 retries) sd0: retry 0 sd0: sn 2108290: media error: unrecovered read error (41 retries) sd0: retry 0 sd0: sn 2108290: media error: unrecovered read error (41 retries) I used to have a 9G drive as sd0, but it failed (I assume due to these errors). I took out the drive and replaced it with a 4G drive which was working fine for three weeks then we started getting the same errors. I just patched the kernel with all the 3.0 patches, and sure enough the same error started coming up again. Does anyone know if this is the splice driver? Or do we just happen to be going thru hard drives like they are clean underwear! -- ------------------------------------------------------ casper@hostile.net hostile networks ------------------------------------------------------