From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 15 21:47:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB7614DE5; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:47:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA13398; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:17:16 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA66624; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:17:14 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990316161714.E429@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:17:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au 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> <36EDE48F.1101F764@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36EDE48F.1101F764@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>; from Carl Makin on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 03:56:47PM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 15:56:47 +1100, Carl Makin wrote: > 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. That doesn't surprise me. I'd guess that it also showed no visible difference in performance. > It was probably just completely useless! :) Right. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message