Subject: mfs limitation?
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Steve Rumble <rumble@ephemeral.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/03/2003 01:12:32
	I've recently noticed that I cannot seem to create mfs partitions in
excess of 247MB. This is on an SS20 with 512mb ram and dual hypersparcs
running GENERIC.

temporal: {1} mount_mfs -s 512m swap /usr/obj
temporal: {2} df -h
Filesystem    Size     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/raid0a    31M      18M       11M    62%    /
/dev/raid0d   1.0G     3.8M      952M     0%    /var
/dev/raid0e   3.4G     1.4G      1.9G    42%    /usr
/dev/sd0a      15M     3.4M       11M    23%    /boot0
/dev/sd1a      15M     3.4M       11M    23%    /boot1
mfs:178       124M      18K      118M     0%    /tmp
/dev/raid0f   2.8G      70K      2.7G     0%    /home
kernfs        1.0K     1.0K      0.0B   100%    /kern
procfs        4.0K     4.0K      0.0B   100%    /proc
fdesc         1.0K     1.0K      0.0B   100%    /dev
mfs:16885     247M     1.0K      235M     0%    /usr/obj

Top reports 430mb ram and 1010mb swap free.

I've scanned Google with no success. Is such behavior normal for this
architecture? On i386 I can mount mfs partitions well in excess of this
amount. Interestingly, I can mount however many 247MB partitions I
please.

Thanks,
-Steve