Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-11 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Hello, Am Mittwoch, 10. November 2004 22:31 schrieben Sie: ok, your instructions worked like a charm. So i'm running my nice 4 member SCSI gvinum raid5 array (with softupdates turned on), and it's zipping along. Fine! :-) Now I need to test just how robust this is. Ouhh... ;-)

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-11 Thread secmgr
Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: I'm not sure if this is a problem of (g)vinum or if FreeBSD has other problems in this area. just logged a kern bug on this And we all have to consider that gvinum is in a relatively early development phase (IMHO) - it is basically working, that is, it's

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-10 Thread secmgr
ok, your instructions worked like a charm. So i'm running my nice 4 member SCSI gvinum raid5 array (with softupdates turned on), and it's zipping along. Now I need to test just how robust this is. camcontrol is too nice. I want to test a more real world failure. I'm running dbench and

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-07 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Sonntag, 7. November 2004 06:30 schrieb secmgr: On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 04:16, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: Did you try to simply 'start' the plex? This works for initialisation of a newly created RAID5-Plex as well as for recalculating parity informations on a degraded RAID5-Plex. I

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-07 Thread Joe Koberg
secmgr wrote: No, I mean self corrupting raid5 sets during initialization. Discussed about 2-3 weeks ago. In the following message you seemed to claim that adding 64 sectors of slack to the beginning of the vinum partition fixed this problem, as I suggested. Did that fix it or not? The

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-07 Thread secmgr
It did, but can you tell me anywhere in the docs it says to do that? Or maybe that vinum should sense that and throw some error rather than just blindly corrupting itself. jim On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 09:38, Joe Koberg wrote: secmgr wrote: No, I mean self corrupting raid5 sets during

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-06 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Mittwoch, 3. November 2004 21:27 schrieb secmgr: Just ran into this myself. I had a perfectly happy raid 5 plex under 5.3 RC1. I upgrade to RC2, and the whole plex goes stale. I deleted everything from the volume on down (except for the drives), and tried to recreate the vol/plex/sd's.

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-06 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Am Mittwoch, 3. November 2004 21:27 schrieb secmgr: I hate to sound like a whiney baby, but WTF is going on? It feels like vinum from 4.x has basicly been abandoned (short of crashes with no workaround), and gvinum ain't near ready for primetime. If you mean the 'dangling vnode'-problem with

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 1 November 2004 at 10:05:16 +1100, Carl Makin wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 25 October 2004 at 14:21:33 -0600, secmgr wrote: It's beginning to look like that's a bad idea. Lukas is (understandably) working only on gvinum, and since I know it's nearly there, I'm

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-06 Thread secmgr
No, I mean self corrupting raid5 sets during initialization. Discussed about 2-3 weeks ago. On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 05:09, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: If you mean the 'dangling vnode'-problem with vinum-classic: Try to start 'classic' vinum *after* the system has come up. Either

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-06 Thread secmgr
I did a gvinum start. On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 04:16, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: Am Mittwoch, 3. November 2004 21:27 schrieb secmgr: Just ran into this myself. I had a perfectly happy raid 5 plex under 5.3 RC1. I upgrade to RC2, and the whole plex goes stale. I deleted everything from

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-03 Thread secmgr
Adrian Wontroba wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:05:16AM +1100, Carl Makin wrote: Do you want to yank it in 5 or 6-CURRENT? There are a *lot* of people using vinum and yanking it in 5-STABLE would force us all to use the 5.3 security branch until gvinum caught up. From my experiences

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-11-02 Thread Adrian Wontroba
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:05:16AM +1100, Carl Makin wrote: Do you want to yank it in 5 or 6-CURRENT? There are a *lot* of people using vinum and yanking it in 5-STABLE would force us all to use the 5.3 security branch until gvinum caught up. From my experiences today with setting up a

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-31 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 29 October 2004 at 14:20:40 -0600, secmgr wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A bit of background: we know that 'gvinum' will replace Vinum; the original intention had been to do it seamlessly, but for various reasons that did happen. Then we decided that we should leave them both

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-31 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Greg, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 25 October 2004 at 14:21:33 -0600, secmgr wrote: It's beginning to look like that's a bad idea. Lukas is (understandably) working only on gvinum, and since I know it's nearly there, I'm not going to do any further work on Vinum in FreeBSD 5. Given

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-29 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 25 October 2004 at 14:21:33 -0600, secmgr wrote: Andrew Konstantinov wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 05:55, Oliver Torres Delgado wrote: I have freebsd 5.3 rc1 installed perfectly, i configure vinum with the handbook and all work perfect but when try run vinum with rc.conf there

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-29 Thread secmgr
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A bit of background: we know that 'gvinum' will replace Vinum; the original intention had been to do it seamlessly, but for various reasons that did happen. Then we decided that we should leave them both in the tree until gvinum had the full functionality of Vinum. It's

freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-25 Thread Oliver Torres Delgado
I have freebsd 5.3 rc1 installed perfectly, i configure vinum with the handbook and all work perfect but when try run vinum with rc.conf there display the error: panic: unmount: dangling vnode cpuid: 0 uptime= 4s Cannot dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds. why happened ?

[Fwd: Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?]

2004-10-25 Thread secmgr
I have freebsd 5.3 rc1 installed perfectly, i configure vinum with the handbook and all work perfect but when try run vinum with rc.conf there display the error: panic: unmount: dangling vnode cpuid: 0 uptime= 4s Cannot dump. No dump device defined Automatic reboot in 15 seconds. why happened ?

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-25 Thread Andrew Konstantinov
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 05:55, Oliver Torres Delgado wrote: I have freebsd 5.3 rc1 installed perfectly, i configure vinum with the handbook and all work perfect but when try run vinum with rc.conf there display the error: panic: unmount: dangling vnode cpuid: 0 uptime= 4s Cannot dump. No

Re: freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

2004-10-25 Thread secmgr
Andrew Konstantinov wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 05:55, Oliver Torres Delgado wrote: I have freebsd 5.3 rc1 installed perfectly, i configure vinum with the handbook and all work perfect but when try run vinum with rc.conf there display the error: panic: unmount: dangling vnode cpuid: 0 uptime=