Re: freebsd-current Digest, Vol 73, Issue 14

From: Mario A. Doria (mariodoria_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/25/04

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    To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
    Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:21:10 -0500
    
    

    > Yes, I meant 5.3 :-)
    >
    > So what's state is (g)vinum likely to be in for 5.3? I'm hesitant to
    > upgrade because it appears that the system is moving from under
    > vinum's feet, and gvinum isn't there yet. What are people who are
    > currently using vinum on earlier 5.x's going to do until gvinum is
    > finished?

    Well, I have two machines running RELENG_5 from yesterday. One machine
    has four SCSI disks, two in a concatenated volume and two in a mirrored
    volume. I created everything in vinum, rebooted and reloaded in gvinum,
    no problems. This machine has been running make -j16 buildworlds on
    that volume for the last 36 hours.

    In another, I had two disks with a concatenated volume, and because I
    had two vinum drives in each disk, all hell broke loose. It wouldn't
    recognize the proper size of the volume, lose information, report disks
    as crashed and after a reboot, report everything was fine. I could
    reconfigure the vinum configuration using "vinum", and it would run OK
    until a reboot. Now I only have one vinum drive per disk, but still I
    have problems. I'm going to reformat the disks and start over.

    Mario
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