INN cycbuff stuff (was: Re: dd file size limit?)

[The Doctor]

inn-wokrers at isc.org has a solution for you!

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:22:24PM +0300, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
> This may not be entirely BSD/OS related, but after hitting yet another 
> filesystem bug, I still can't understand the restrictions on handling large 
> files/mmap. (and I appear to be too lazy to read all that source - but anyway, 
> discussion sometimes reveals gems here :-)
> 
> The INN (hat comes with BSD/OS 4.2) documentation of cycbuff says that the 
> prefered method of using cycbuffs is to use the raw partitition device. The 
> man page of cycbuff.conf however claims that not all OSes support mmap-ing 
> devices properly (that is: Solaris does, FreeBSD doesn't - but BSD/OS shoule 
> be better than FreeBSD, right?)
> 
> with the following in cycbuff.conf
> 
> cycbuff:ONE:/a/storage/sd1a:71687369
> 
> on a disk for which disksetup says (last lines):
> 
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a: 143374738        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16  # (Cyl.    0 - 70007*)
>   c: 143374738        0    unused        0     0        # (Cyl.    0 - 70007*)
> 
> starting inn results in:
> 
> Oct  4 13:48:16 news innd: CNFS-sm: No magic cookie found for cycbuff ONE, 
> initi
> alizing
> Oct  4 13:48:16 news innd: CNFS-sm: CNFSinitdisks: mmap for /a/storage/sd1a 
> offs
> et 0 len 17924096 failed: Invalid argument
> Oct  4 13:48:16 news innd: SM storage method 'cnfs' failed initialization
> Oct  4 13:48:16 news innd: SM one or more storage methods failed initialization
> Oct  4 13:48:16 news innd: SERVER cant initialize the storage subsystem one or 
> m
> ore storage methods failed initialization
> 
> then dies.
> 
> My reason for using this is I already hate disks that fill up with news that 
> never expire :) I was happy user of the classic news storage method until now..
> 
> Should I just splice bunch of these disks together and forget about the 
> storage manager under BSD/OS?
> 
> Daniel
> 
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