The following setup seams to indicate that bioctl aint able to handle 2 + TB volumes.
Controler: Perc RAID 5/i, mfi0 HDDs: 4x1TB RAID: 5 Configuration: Configured during the controler BIOS Volume 00 appears as: sd0 disklabel -E sd0 # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 5857345473 63 RAID c: 5857345536 0 unused # I had to use "b" + "*" to gain the whole space! You might wanna document that in the manpage? Before using "b"+"*" the size was limited to: 1562363692 But ok..: Created a partition called "a" and attaching it to softraid0 for the Crypto discipline. sd1 appears but aint able to use the whole space. "b"+"*" did not solved it. 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] c: 1562363692 0 unused # # dmesg |grep sd1 sd1 at scsibus2 targ 0 lun 0: <OPENBSD, SR CRYPTO, 003> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd1: 762872MB, 512 bytes/sec, 1562363692 sec total # dmesg |grep sd0 sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <DELL, PERC 5/i, 1.12> SCSI3 0/direct fixed sd0: 2860032MB, 512 bytes/sec, 5857345536 sec total # uname -a OpenBSD kerberos 4.5 GENERIC#2052 amd64 # Does anybody knows how to may solve this? I can use sd0 completly and without issues. It just seams softraid has somehow problems to get the whole space. Another Bug in the great FS layer(-logic) of OpenBSD... And if you dislike your console simply use bioctl -i mfi0 and it will fuck up (no aborting possible! Very cool and l33t if you're connected via Serial connections). Of course bioctl is in D+ state making it impossible for root to kill it... ;-) I just thought others might should be aware of this too. But if anybody knows how to use a big disk with softraid pls enlight me. Kind regards, Rembrandt
