On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:18:30AM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > We have a new toy to test very large & slow storage with built up from 5 > SAS expansion shelves (Promise Vtrak J-Class) with 60 S-ATA drives and > 16 SAS drives (the S-ATA drives each have a Promise Vtrak S-ATA MUX > adapter daughter card in the disk sled). > > The basic idea is to build a cheap & slow test bed for file & storage > system scalability. Collectively, we have about 120TB (raw) of capacity > to play with in one server. > > As we work through various issues, a couple of oddities popped out. > > The first is that udev grumbles during boot about "file name too long" > like the following: > > Aug 17 06:49:58 megadeth udevd-event[20447]: unable to create db file > '/dev/.udev/db/\x2fdevices\x2fpci0000:00\x2f0000:00:04.0\x2f0000:17:00.0\x2f0000:18:0a.0\x2f0000:1f:00.0\x2fhost11\x2fport-11:0\x2fexpander-11:0\x2fport-11:0:0\x2fexpander-11:1\x2fport-11:1:0\x2fexpander-11:2\x2fport-11:2:17\x2fexpander-11:3\x2fport-11:3:1\x2fend_device-11:3:1\x2fbsg\x2fend_device-11:3:1': > File name too long Odd, what is the sysfs tree for this device? You have expanders attached to ports attached to expanders? How deep can you go? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
