From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 26 12:35:33 2004 Return-Path: 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 3F14F16A4CE; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:35:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from darkness.comp.waw.pl (darkness.comp.waw.pl [195.117.238.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D787443D48; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:35:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@darkness.comp.waw.pl) Received: by darkness.comp.waw.pl (Postfix, from userid 1009) id 290FEAC96A; Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:35:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:35:30 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Lukas Ertl Message-ID: <20040626123530.GF12007@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <20040625013138.54319.qmail@web53710.mail.yahoo.com> <20040626135735.E666@korben.in.tern> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xmaaO/kAkmiSHqEM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040626135735.E666@korben.in.tern> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386 cc: Daryl Chance cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: geom_vinum problems (crashes and lockups) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:35:33 -0000 --xmaaO/kAkmiSHqEM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:07:03PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote: +> This is a situation that I currently consider 'unsupported'. The proble= m=20 +> is that the 'd' partition has no offset, thus it is (from the point of= =20 +> view of a geom_vinum drive geom) the same as the 'c' partition. This is= =20 +> the first problem. The second problem is the on-disk format of a=20 +> bsdlabel. As far as I understand it, this meta-data is stored inside=20 +> the first partition, so when you open the drive for writing (i.e.=20 +> mount, fsck) you trigger a spoil event which cause all kinds of confusio= n=20 +> for geom_vinum. I don't know exactly what problems you got, but maybe it can help you: To avoid spoiling and metadata changes under me, I'm opening every provider, which I want to use in geom_mirror (r1w1e1), even if provider which I create isn't yet opened. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --xmaaO/kAkmiSHqEM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA3W2SForvXbEpPzQRAnRVAJ0UzuqrCMJ90RN1Dl4iqTdH7aXHbgCg5MXa VgmPZHGyC5gQqKhQcs59abU= =wb4H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xmaaO/kAkmiSHqEM--