From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 15 20:58:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F571511C; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:57:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA10634; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:56:49 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from newton.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.18) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma010622; Tue, 16 Mar 99 15:56:24 +1100 Received: from xena.ipaustralia.gov.au (disc-6-82.aipo.gov.au [10.0.6.82]) by newton.aipo.gov.au (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA66417; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:56:23 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.aipo.gov.au) Message-ID: <36EDE48F.1101F764@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:56:47 +1100 From: Carl Makin Reply-To: carl@xena.aipo.gov.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates and CCD (was: Vinum questions?) References: <19990312133024.005687@relay.skynet.be> <19990312144140.011407@relay.skynet.be> <19990313085234.D429@lemis.com> <36ED921D.C9BF2840@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> <19990316100252.Q429@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 10:05:01 +1100, Carl Makin wrote: > >> On Friday, 12 March 1999 at 14:41:40 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > >>> experience with running a softupdates filesystem on top of a vinum > >>> striped/concatenated volume, do you? Am I dreaming in hoping that > > I'm running softupdates on a CCD stripe. I found it worked when I > > enabled softupdates on the 2 slices making up the CCD individually. I > > couldn't enable it on the CCD itself. > This doesn't work. You should be able to enable softupdates on the > ccd, but enabling it on the components makes no difference at all. > The fact that you can do it is a bug allowed by the fact that ccd > requires a 4.2BSD type partition. I just tried again and this time it worked. I must have been doing something wrong before. FWIW enabling softupdates on the components ran for over a week with a reasonable load and no visible problems. It was probably just completely useless! :) Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message