From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 11:41:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB2E16A400 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:41:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F6413C4C6 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:41:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 8581D48804; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:41:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (pjd.wheel.pl [10.0.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686CB487F2; Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:41:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:41:15 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20070410114115.GB85578@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <86bqhyu225.fsf@dwp.des.no> <461A4D93.3010200@freebsd.org> <20070409143818.GA86722@harmless.hu> <20070409152401.GG76673@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070409153203.GA88082@harmless.hu> <461A5EC6.8010000@freebsd.org> <20070409154407.GA88621@harmless.hu> <20070410111957.GA85578@garage.freebsd.pl> <461B75B2.40201@fer.hr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <461B75B2.40201@fer.hr> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: volume management X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:41:30 -0000 --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:32:02PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >=20 > >Ivan, as you probably already find out this is not an easy task and it > >gets more complex when SU comes into play or any async operations, > >because there is noone waiting for the error to return. > >Maybe you for now allow to set two modes of handling ENOSPC > >(configurable by the user): > >1. Panic if there is no physical storage. This way you protect > > consistency. You already printed a warning that gvirstor is running > > out of physical storage, so administrator has a chance to do the job. >=20 > I really don't want to do that :( If you have important data, this is really not bad idea. I, for one, prefer my kernel to panic, so I can see what exactly went wrong, add another disk and reboot instead of allowing kernel goes into wild by returning an error which won't be handled properly. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGG3fbForvXbEpPzQRAn1EAKDt35KTQnY3YBKKj7X9zuUxsuMFWgCgz/UE 0Bp+f/3QQ02Cw8RZew6wQ0c= =7Y+i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW--