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| author | sbruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-06-17 19:28:56 +0000 |
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| committer | sbruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-06-17 19:28:56 +0000 |
| commit | 72002cd9554a61bb7005db6a3f3faebc0327993a (patch) | |
| tree | aeb52db59b8285afe712fe3ad09ee28fc2adeb55 /usr.sbin | |
| parent | 0e09f70bb6ed6bcbd965e2bdd47e29e6eb98ac14 (diff) | |
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Expand man page to document the fact that mptutil/mpt doesn't support RAID volumes in excess of 2TB. Document workaround via geom or zfs
Modified submitter's original patch to reference why this is broken and what to do to work around the issue.
Submitted by: hubert@tournier.org
PR: bin/147572
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/mptutil/mptutil.8 | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/mptutil/mptutil.8 b/usr.sbin/mptutil/mptutil.8 index 196fc00..473e7a9 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/mptutil/mptutil.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/mptutil/mptutil.8 @@ -384,3 +384,15 @@ configurations may not work reliably. .Pp Drive configuration commands result in an excessive flood of messages on the console. +.Pp +The mpt version 1 API that is used by +.Nm +and +.Xr mpt 4 +doesn't support volumes above two terabytes. +This is a limitation of the API. +If you are using this adapter with volumes larger than two terabytes, use the adapter in JBOD mode. +Utilize +.Xr geom 8 +.Xr zfs 1M +or another software volume manager to work around this limitation. |
