From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 15 14:50:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED33237B401 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:50:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16FB843F3F for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:50:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id CF41F51A62; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:20:10 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 09:20:10 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Vallo Kallaste Cc: Darryl Okahata , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vinum R5 Message-ID: <20030315225010.GJ92629@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030220200317.GA5136@kevad.internal> <200302202228.OAA03775@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20030221080046.GA1103@kevad.internal> <20030227012959.GA89235@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030227095302.GA1183@kevad.internal> <20030301184310.GA631@kevad.internal> <20030314024602.GL77236@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030314080528.GA1174@kevad.internal> <20030315013223.GC90698@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030315083454.GA935@kevad.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W13SgbpmD6bhZUTM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030315083454.GA935@kevad.internal> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --W13SgbpmD6bhZUTM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 15 March 2003 at 10:34:54 +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:02:23PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey > wrote: > >>> -current, system did panic everytime at the end of >>> initialisation of parity (raidctl -iv raid?). So I used the >>> raidframe patch for -stable at >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/rf/2001-08-28-RAIDframe-stable.diff.gz >>> Had to do some patching by hand, but otherwise works well. >> >> I don't think that problems with RAIDFrame are related to these >> problems with Vinum. I seem to remember a commit to the head branch >> recently (in the last 12 months) relating to the problem you've seen. >> I forget exactly where it went (it wasn't from me), and in cursory >> searching I couldn't find it. It's possible that it hasn't been >> MFC'd, which would explain your problem. If you have a 5.0 machine, >> it would be interesting to see if you can reproduce it there. > > Yes, yes, the whole raidframe story was meant as information about > the conditions I did the raidframe vs. Vinum testing on. Nothing to > do with Vinum, besides that raidframe works and Vinum does not. > >>> Will it suffice to switch off power for one disk to simulate "more" >>> real-world disk failure? Are there any hidden pitfalls for failing >>> and restoring operation of non-hotswap disks? >> >> I don't think so. It was more thinking aloud than anything else. As >> I said above, this is the way I tested things in the first place. > > Ok, I'll try to simulate the disk failure by switching off the > power, then. I think you misunderstand. I simulated the disk failures by doing a "stop -f". I can't see any way that the way they go down can influence the revive integrity. I can see that powering down might not do the disks any good. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --W13SgbpmD6bhZUTM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+c64iIubykFB6QiMRAkEvAJ9RLcXQO7DK+zVGMHFLZBplR2LrBwCgiEjD 4LY0crsMJqAUvFC3n1X04UE= =LPNM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W13SgbpmD6bhZUTM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message