Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 December 2004 at 13:42:40 -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 19:00 +0100, Nikolaj Hansen wrote: > >> I also do not think it belongs in the stable branch just yet :-D Any hope >> of you fixing the old vinum in the 5.3 branch or is it a wait for the 5.4? > > AFAIK, the o

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 19:00 +0100, Nikolaj Hansen wrote: > I also do not think it belongs in the stable branch just yet :-D Any hope > of you fixing the old vinum in the 5.3 branch or is it a wait for the 5.4? AFAIK, the old vinum will *never* be "fixed" in the 5.3 branch or any subsequent branch

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-21 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: Am Montag, 20. Dezember 2004 00:04 schrieb Nikolaj Hansen: [...] The whole problem is, I cannot mount any thing without doing it this way. The reason for this is, as you pointed out , that my disk setup is different than the norm: $ sudo bsdlabel

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-21 Thread Nikolaj Hansen
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:35:23PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Am Montag, 20. Dezember 2004 00:04 schrieb Nikolaj Hansen: > This disk setup seems to me perfectly legal. Your vinum-partition has an > offset of 1740535 which is != 0, that's all that I meant. > OK, Thats a relief. I also

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-20 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Montag, 20. Dezember 2004 00:04 schrieb Nikolaj Hansen: > [...] The whole problem is, I cannot > mount any thing without doing it this way. The reason for this is, as > you pointed out , that my disk setup is different than the norm: > > $ sudo bsdlabel da1s1 > Password: > # /dev/da1s1: > 8 part

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-19 Thread Nikolaj Hansen
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:50:52AM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2004 07:12 schrieb Nikolaj Hansen: > > I gave the 5.3 upgrade another swing. Now the situation is: > > > > $ uname -a > > FreeBSD sauron.barnabas.dk 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Sat > > Dec 18

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-19 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2004 07:12 schrieb Nikolaj Hansen: > I gave the 5.3 upgrade another swing. Now the situation is: > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD sauron.barnabas.dk 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Sat > Dec 18 18:39:09 CET 2004 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL_5_3 i386 Per

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolaj Hansen
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:27:58PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 00:15 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > > Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather: > > > > > > The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA > > > "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" woe

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Mather
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 00:15 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather: > > > > The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA > > "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" woe that bedevils some of us under 5.3. When > > that happens, your mirro

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather: > > The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA > "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" woe that bedevils some of us under 5.3. When > that happens, your mirror will be knocked into a degraded state (half > of your mirrored plexes will

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 20:52 +0100, Nikolaj Hansen wrote: > While some uncommon configurations, such as multiple vinum drives on a > disk, are not supported, it is generally backward compatible. Note that > for the geom(4)-aware vinum, its new userland control program, gvinum, > should be used,

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 20:52 schrieb Nikolaj Hansen: > [...] > I think I have to disagree calling muliple drives on a disk > "uncommon". In fact, I think I remember that being the way it was > demonstrated in an old version of the handbook. Here is my current > setup after rolling back to Fr

FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolaj Hansen
Hi all, Forget the first post. My server is still somewhat unstable after the upgrade attempts, and I appologize. Here goes the real deal: I tried to upgrade my existing 5.2.1 to a 5.3. I ran into severe problems with my vinum setup in trying to do so. I think i can answer why, the reason is st