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Date:      Sun, 8 Aug 1999 09:55:58 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
Cc:        "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: VINUM
Message-ID:  <19990808095558.I5126@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105B52@site2s1>; from Christopher Michaels on Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 03:26:21PM -0400
References:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105B52@site2s1>

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Funny, I don't recall this thread.

On Saturday,  7 August 1999 at 15:26:21 -0400, Christopher Michaels wrote:
> On Saturday, August 07, 1999 2:50 PM, Jeffrey J. Mountin <jeff-ml@mountin.net> wrote:
>> At 02:46 PM 8/6/99 -0400, Christopher Michaels wrote:
>>> I have nowhere near that much volume on my vinum volume, but i've had
>>> absolutely no problems.    It even recovered from a power outage w/o any
>>> problems at all.
>>
>> Similarly I had one disk from a striped plex with bad power
>> connector.  It lost power during a write and hence went stale.
>> Managed to recover without losing the data already present.
>>
>> Wasn't a critical issue and rewrote the vinum config and fsck'd.
>> Lost+found ended up with a few entries, but all my data was still there
>> barring the last write.  Thing is I didn't expect to recover, even if the
>> drive didn't die.
>>
>> Only have an issue with shutdown.  After "shutting down daemon processes"
>> pauses, init spews out "some processes would not die ps axl advised" and
>> this is caused by vinum.  Upon reboot all filesystems are marked
>> clean.

How do you know this is caused by Vinum?

>> Happens when the vinum volumes are umounted first, but not if a 'vinum
>> stop' is issued.  It will not die on a SIGKILL.  Could add a couple lines
>> to rc.shutdown and unmount and unload vinum, but it played nice with init
>> before.
>>
>> Same thing with stable of 7/15 and 8/5, but not sure when the creeped in,
>> since I'm not always looking at the console for a reboot.  The last
>> buildworld was from all fresh source.
>>
>> Anyone else see this?

Not I.

> When I shutdown or reboot my system I had no such problem.  Are you
> running vinum at bootup or is it compiled into you kernel?

That shouldn't make a difference.  But first I'd like to know whether
this is really a Vinum issue.

Greg
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