From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Jan 23 13:52:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643F137B401; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:52:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E3843F3F; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 8B41F536F; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:52:40 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Greg Lehey Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum stability (was: RAID alternatives) References: <20030123083114.GB899@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:52:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20030123083114.GB899@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> (Greg Lehey's message of "Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:31:14 +0800") Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey writes: > I suppose that depends on the bugs you've seen. I don't know of > anything serious still left in there. There are some issues where > incorrect configuration requests are not adequately parsed, and can > lead to things like incorrect counts of objects or free space. Under > certain circumstances multiple starts can also cause problems. I'm > planning to look at least at the second issue Real Soon Now. I don't remember having had trouble once vinum was actually configured and running (except for the one bug in the recovery code which I fixed way back when, two years ago?), but I've run into a lot of trouble getting it configured. It may have been a combination of pilot error with the "multiple starts" problem you mention. I haven't touched vinum in quite a while, and I'm perfectly willing to believe that it's gotten better since then. Have all the devfs- and geom-related issues been ironed out btw? (except for the growfs thing, which isn't really a vinum problem) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message