From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 7 17:27:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B4914C57 for ; Sat, 7 Aug 1999 17:27:24 -0700 (PDT) (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 JAA24365; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 09:56:00 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA89496; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 09:55:58 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 09:55:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Christopher Michaels Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: VINUM Message-ID: <19990808095558.I5126@freebie.lemis.com> References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105B52@site2s1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105B52@site2s1>; from Christopher Michaels on Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 03:26:21PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Funny, I don't recall this thread. On Saturday, 7 August 1999 at 15:26:21 -0400, Christopher Michaels wrote: > On Saturday, August 07, 1999 2:50 PM, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >> At 02:46 PM 8/6/99 -0400, Christopher Michaels wrote: >>> I have nowhere near that much volume on my vinum volume, but i've had >>> absolutely no problems. It even recovered from a power outage w/o any >>> problems at all. >> >> Similarly I had one disk from a striped plex with bad power >> connector. It lost power during a write and hence went stale. >> Managed to recover without losing the data already present. >> >> Wasn't a critical issue and rewrote the vinum config and fsck'd. >> Lost+found ended up with a few entries, but all my data was still there >> barring the last write. Thing is I didn't expect to recover, even if the >> drive didn't die. >> >> Only have an issue with shutdown. After "shutting down daemon processes" >> pauses, init spews out "some processes would not die ps axl advised" and >> this is caused by vinum. Upon reboot all filesystems are marked >> clean. How do you know this is caused by Vinum? >> Happens when the vinum volumes are umounted first, but not if a 'vinum >> stop' is issued. It will not die on a SIGKILL. Could add a couple lines >> to rc.shutdown and unmount and unload vinum, but it played nice with init >> before. >> >> Same thing with stable of 7/15 and 8/5, but not sure when the creeped in, >> since I'm not always looking at the console for a reboot. The last >> buildworld was from all fresh source. >> >> Anyone else see this? Not I. > When I shutdown or reboot my system I had no such problem. Are you > running vinum at bootup or is it compiled into you kernel? That shouldn't make a difference. But first I'd like to know whether this is really a Vinum issue. 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-questions" in the body of the message