Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:21:55 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>, jeff-ml@mountin.net Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum performance testing... Message-ID: <v04205501b406668b8d98@[194.78.238.48]> In-Reply-To: <199909160143.JAA18180@netrinsics.com> References: <199909160143.JAA18180@netrinsics.com>
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At 9:43 AM +0800 1999/9/16, Michael Robinson wrote: > What happened after that was the > two subdisks of the striped plex were essentially trashed. All sorts of > really cool kernel side effects were visible at that time, such as streams > of garbage characters on the console that precluded an orderly shutdown. > A couple of hard restarts later, and there wasn't anything left to salvage. If there was any way to capture this sort of information, I assure you that Greg would have wanted to find out what it was, so that he could discover what the real problem was that caused it, and make changes to the code to help prevent things like this from happening again. It's not good when things like this happen. However, sometimes the only way to find certain types of bugs is to try to use the product in ways it was not intended (or ways in which the author did not foresee, although they would appear to be consistent with the documentation), and then watch the sparks fly. After that, you have to try to pick up the pieces and figure out what the heck happened. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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