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From: Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
To: Andrew Heyn <andrewh@jumpapparel.com>
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Subject: Re: writing to gvinum volume causes system freeze
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Andrew Heyn wrote:

> I have three 33GB scsi drives.
> My problem is that whenever I try to 'start home' or another one of the
> volumes, and once it is up if I try to newfs it (home for example), the
> following happens:
>
> newfs /dev/gvinum/home
> /dev/gvinum/home: 4794.8MB (9819684 sectors) block size 16384, fragment
> size 204
> 8
>        using 27 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
> 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624,
> 3010976,
> 3387328, 3763680, 4140032,
> <system hang>

Are you having an SMP or a UP system?  Are you running -STABLE or 
-CURRENT?

thanks,
le

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