From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 10:24:39 2004 Return-Path: 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 907DD16A4CE; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:24:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smart.eusc.inter.net (smart.eusc.inter.net [213.73.101.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4797F43D39; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 10:24:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from msch@snafu.de) Received: from dial-76-135.de.inter.net ([213.73.76.135] helo=current.best-eng.de) by smart.eusc.inter.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #4) id 1CQkDs-0005Fw-00; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 11:24:36 +0100 Received: from current.best-eng.de (localhost.best-eng.de [127.0.0.1]) by current.best-eng.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iA7AOZuT001712; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:24:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from msch@snafu.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by current.best-eng.de (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iA7AOZLn001711; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:24:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from msch@snafu.de) X-Authentication-Warning: current.best-eng.de: matthias set sender to msch@snafu.de using -f From: Matthias Schuendehuette Organization: Micro$oft-free Zone To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:24:34 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041107003413.GQ24507@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20041107030748.GZ24507@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20041107030748.GZ24507@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411071124.35056.msch@snafu.de> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:02:44 +0000 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: scottl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum remains broken in 5.3-RELEASE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: msch@snafu.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:24:39 -0000 Am Sonntag, 7. November 2004 04:07 schrieb Greg 'groggy' Lehey: > On Saturday, 6 November 2004 at 20:40:44 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> I can appreciate that the leadup to 5.3-RELEASE has been painful, > >> but what's the purpose of a release which doesn't work? For a > >> large number of Vinum users, 5.3 will be a release to avoid. > > > > Perhaps this deserves an errata entry? > > No, I was mistaken. See my subsequent apology. To clarify the things out of my point of view: gvinum on 5.3-RELEASE seems to work fine as a LVM (LogicalVolumeManager) and for striping (RAID-0) and mirroring (RAID-1). It does *not* work for *writing* on RAID5-volumes in UP (SingleProcessor) environments due to a bug which was fixed too late for 5.3-RELEASE. I'm not aware of any statistics about the use of (g)vinum - but for users of (g)vinum RAID5-Volumes in UP-environments 5.3-RELEASE *is* problematic. Greg remains right here IMHO. RAID5 under 5.3-RELEASE (UP) only works with 'classic' vinum if loaded *after* the system has come up. Perhaps this posting could be a template for the ERRATA entry... :-) -- Ciao/BSD - Matthias Matthias Schuendehuette , Berlin (Germany) PGP-Key at and ID: 0xDDFB0A5F