From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 20 16:54: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3713F37B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:54:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from vador.skynet.be (vador.skynet.be [195.238.3.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981A843F75 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:54:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (ip-26.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.26] (may be forged)) by vador.skynet.be (8.12.7/8.12.7/Skynet-OUT-2.21) with ESMTP id h1L0rr0V017023; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:53:53 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200302202228.OAA03775@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: <200302202228.OAA03775@mina.soco.agilent.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 00:12:51 +0100 To: Darryl Okahata From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: background fsck deadlocks with ufs2 and big disk Cc: kalts@estpak.ee, current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:28 PM -0800 2003/02/20, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Did you believe that the crashes were caused by enabling softupdates on > an R5 vinum volume, or were the crashes unrelated to vinum/softupdates? > I can see how crashes unrelated to vinum/softupdates might trash vinum > filesystems. Using RAID-5 under vinum was always a somewhat tricky business for me, but in many cases I could get it to work reasonably well most of the time. But if I enabled softupdates on that filesystem, I was toast. Softupdates enabled on filesystems that were not on top of vinum RAID-5 logical devices seemed to be fine. So, the interaction that I personally witnessed was specifically between vinum RAID-5 and softupdates. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message