From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 16 13:20: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED3837B54D for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:20:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFAA4132E7 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:19:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA09752; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:47:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:47:54 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brad Knowles Cc: Benjamin Greenwald , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum + softupdates Message-ID: <20000216134754.E3509@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200002161924.OAA25116@miris.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from blk@skynet.be on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 08:58:37PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brad Knowles [000216 13:31] wrote: > At 2:24 PM -0500 2000/2/16, Benjamin Greenwald wrote: > > > Does anyone have experience running softupdates on a vinum partition? Any > > problems/prohibitions I should be aware of? > > There are some issues with vinum (particularly the RAID-5 code) > that I believe are not fixed unless you're running a recent version > of -CURRENT, and I don't know whether any of those changes will be > back-ported to -STABLE, so keep this in mind. > > Likewise, there are some issues with running softupdates under > certain circumstances (even with -CURRENT), so you don't want to run > it on a particular partition unless you know that you actually need > the features it provides, and you know that you can live with the > problems. What issues with softdep? The out-of-space-panic-kaboom thing was fixed and backported to -stable, is there anything else? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message