From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 26 15:58:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D2337B404 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:58:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5CE9278312; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:28:34 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:28:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Martin Blapp Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: double fault with vinum and 4.5 RC3 Message-ID: <20020127102834.A12125@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020126102058.U4778@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020126142837.F64398-100000@levais.imp.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020126142837.F64398-100000@levais.imp.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i 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: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 26 January 2002 at 14:37:45 +0100, Martin Blapp wrote: > > Hi Greg, > >> >> You still haven't explained why you're doing this. > > /var and docsisvar both need bondarys. /var contains a mailspool, > and /docsis/var contains statistics. > > I cannot have them all on the same partition, since that can fill up > the main /docsis partition quickly, so important services will fail. It seems that you misunderstand the purpose of subdisks. That's what they exist for, so that you can have multiple volumes in a single drive. You should only have one drive per spindle. >> You need a disk first. > > I have a disk ! but vinum does not like it it seems ;-) Not in the evidence you showed me. >> There's no such thing as a master or a slave disk in Vinum. > > I know. This was just to "visualize" the problem a bit more. Yes, but it seems that it has confused the issue. >> This is not necssary. > > Until this problem is fixed, it is (for me at least) I can't recall what you're referring to, but if it's changing IDs and reconfiguring, it's not going to help you fix it. >> No. It's all based on a misunderstanding of how Vinum works. > > Huh ? I'n my opinion vinum should just deal fine with the described > procedure which crashes vinum. No, you're doing lots of things which aren't necessary, and coming to conclusions which are incorrect. >> I'll wait for the dumps of the situations you show above. We should >> also check the hangs. > > I have now a crashdump for you available. More in private mail, ok ? Fine, I've seen that. I'll see what I can do. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message