From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 15:00:30 2003 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 164D316A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:00:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC4843D53 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:00:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F024F2BD38 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:00:25 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 26F7A5120A; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:30:24 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:30:24 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: corbesero@cs.moravian.edu Message-ID: <20031230230024.GC10758@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200312301915.hBUJFik10597@catwoman.cs.moravian.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SLk8PSyqxe/ugcCT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312301915.hBUJFik10597@catwoman.cs.moravian.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum experimentation 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: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:00:30 -0000 --SLk8PSyqxe/ugcCT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 30 December 2003 at 14:15:44 -0500, Stephen Corbesero wrote: > > I hope this is information is useful. I am really hoping to have a > working vinum in FreeBSD 5.x. > > As we all know, vinum has been cranky for a little while now. It > seemed to work fine for me in the early 5.0's, but went 'south" > sometime as the 5.1's began coming out. Well, what happened were incompatibilities with changes introduced with GEOM. Specifically, swap on Vinum currently doesn't work, and it'll take a rewrite before it does. > I have been playing with it on a couple of machines at work, and I > have noticed the following behaviors. I am mostly playing with > mirroring some volumes on two IDE drives. > > * If I start vinum manually after the system is up, and shut it down > manually before I do a reboot, the configuration seems to survive > just fine. On the next boot, I can again start vinum manually, > the drives are read, and I can mount the partitions. > > * If I let vinum come up automatically (setting start_vinum="YES" in > rc.conf), then one of the following will happen. > > a) a system panic before the boot process is completed Do you have a dump? > b) at least one of the vinum can not be found, so anything that > drive is down/faulty. did discover, however, that if I > recreate the drive in vinum, the plexes cheerfully come > back. Do you have log files? > c) the vinum drives can be found, but no volumes are defined > anymore More details? > If this is useful, and someone would like more information, I'll be > happy to continue my experiments. This level of information is not very useful. I do all these things all the time, and I don't have problems. On the other hand, if you're having problems, I'd like to know why. Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and supply the appropriate information. That way we have a hope of solving the problems. FWIW, most problems I've seen with Vinum have been pilot error. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --SLk8PSyqxe/ugcCT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/8gOHIubykFB6QiMRArcAAKCU7sMDu8WVqr03EjVyXJ7JM4UfpQCfdAoH Z7KMo/MS+nalNMV4KfxIlls= =TpEJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLk8PSyqxe/ugcCT--