Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:24:24 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>, Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange crash, possibly vinum-related Message-ID: <20030317235424.GI9422@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030317163746.GA3584@kevad.internal> <20030317121932.GA23991@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20030310231532.GD522@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20030317105828.GA23237@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20030317115752.GA2250@kevad.internal> <20030317121932.GA23991@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20030317163746.GA3584@kevad.internal> <20030310231532.GD522@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20030317105828.GA23237@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <20030317115752.GA2250@kevad.internal> <20030317121932.GA23991@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
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--ZY5CS28jBCfb727c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 17 March 2003 at 18:37:46 +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:19:32PM +0000, Scott Mitchell > <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> wrote: > >> Thanks -- you've confirmed what I suspected, that I could have avoided the >> problems I saw by being a bit more cautious. My bad. >> >> Out of interest though, why do you advise not putting critical data on a >> Vinum R5 volume? This one has been running fine for ~2 years under >> reasonable loads. The disk failure was the first time it's required any >> attention at all, and it seems the problems I had with that were mostly of >> my own making. The mailing lists don't seem to be overrun with people >> complaining that 'Vinum ate my files' :-) > > Because RAID5 main features are to increase data redundancy _and_ > data availability. As you have discovered, it runs until it fails > and then you'll have a hard time recovering it. Recovery is the most > important (and difficult) part of it. Well, everybody else seems to manage fine. It's not difficult, just unreliable in your experience. And yes, I take your experience seriously, but it's not what most other people see. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --ZY5CS28jBCfb727c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+dmAwIubykFB6QiMRAnLKAKCQyar4lmW75tepTmrhEv0X0w+tNACgpCgB rSlijBZRSNdl/StsW7EnmhE= =h40d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZY5CS28jBCfb727c-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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