Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:47:54 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> Cc: Benjamin Greenwald <beng@lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum + softupdates Message-ID: <20000216134754.E3509@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <v04220822b4d0b14a9cf7@[195.238.1.121]>; from blk@skynet.be on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:58:37PM %2B0100 References: <200002161924.OAA25116@miris.lcs.mit.edu> <v04220822b4d0b14a9cf7@[195.238.1.121]>
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* Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> [000216 13:31] wrote: > At 2:24 PM -0500 2000/2/16, Benjamin Greenwald wrote: > > > Does anyone have experience running softupdates on a vinum partition? Any > > problems/prohibitions I should be aware of? > > There are some issues with vinum (particularly the RAID-5 code) > that I believe are not fixed unless you're running a recent version > of -CURRENT, and I don't know whether any of those changes will be > back-ported to -STABLE, so keep this in mind. > > Likewise, there are some issues with running softupdates under > certain circumstances (even with -CURRENT), so you don't want to run > it on a particular partition unless you know that you actually need > the features it provides, and you know that you can live with the > problems. What issues with softdep? The out-of-space-panic-kaboom thing was fixed and backported to -stable, is there anything else? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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