Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 17:46:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>, vallo@matti.ee, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deadlock with vinum raid5 Message-ID: <20000403174615.O42140@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200004030559.HAA21497@freebsd.dk> References: <20000403074300.R59549@freebie.lemis.com> <200004030559.HAA21497@freebsd.dk>
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On Monday, 3 April 2000 at 7:59:48 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: >>> Unfortunately I don't have a toy i386 system ready and testet on alpha. >>> There may be some differences how data corruptions efects on this platform. >> >> I found a potentially serious bug in the RAID calculations yesterday: >> it assumed that sizeof (int) == 4. I suspect that it would just slow >> down the calculations, but in any case I've fixed it. > > This wont fix it on the i386 where the problem is, and btw I havn't seen > any commits yet... No, I was just about to do something when phk changed the interfaces. I don't have the time to keep chasing him, so I'll wait until we have a relatively stable situation and then I'll continue. > Have you tried running a RAID5 on intel HW and have INVARIANTS in > the kernel as I asked you to ?? No, for the above reason. > Have you looked at the dumps I've put up that you asked for ?? Yes. I have some ideas, but before I can continue I need to get my test machine in a stable state. It could take a day or two. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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