Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 01:16:25 -0500 (EST) From: Matt of the Long Red Hair <mattp@conundrum.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs of ccd0 crashes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903290112081.5267-100000@aeon.conundrum.com> In-Reply-To: <19990329103342.M413@lemis.com>
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On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > OK. That should be revision 1.37. They brought in a fix for a > certain overflow problem on 11 March. It fixes a bug that happens on > ccds over 2 GB in size. You can try the following patch to > /usr/src/sys/dev/ccd/ccd.c and see if it works: 1.37.2.1, actually... the patch failed (hunks 2 and 3 don't match). I'm not sure of the right cvs commands to generate the diff, but if you want to let me know, I can just grab my own. /* $Id: ccd.c,v 1.37.2.1 1999/02/18 22:06:00 ken Exp $ */ > >> 2. What do you mean by "crash"? Is it a panic, a spontaneous reboot > >> or a hang? > > > > It's a hang. The machine locks up so that I have to hard-reset it. > > Bad news. If the patch doesn't work, see if you can create a smaller > (< 2GB) ccd and newfs that. > > Of course, the alternative is Vinum, which is much more powerful. See > http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html for more details. This might be worth looking at. I hear it's a lot like Veritas, but my experiences with Veritas (on Sun storage arrays, and mostly second-hand) are less than positive. Is Vinum much more reliable? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Pounsett (MP1229) mattp@conundrum.com PGP Fingerprint = 40 E8 24 BC C1 98 00 F2 56 2F F6 7B 36 34 58 01 http://www.conundrum.com/~mattp ``Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.'' -- Henry Brooks Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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