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Date:      Fri, 5 Nov 1999 23:13:02 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Extending RAID-5 plexes (was: feature list journalled fs)
Message-ID:  <19991105231302.A2771@cicely7.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <19991105165042.50293@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
References:  <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <199911052142.WAA02426@zed.ludd.luth.se> <19991105165042.50293@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>

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On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 04:50:42PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Friday,  5 November 1999 at 22:42:49 +0100, Mattias Pantzare wrote:
> 
> > To get to know vinum I tried to use it on devices made with
> > vnconfig. Should I debug the panic I got or will it just not work?
> 
> I don't know of any a priori reason why it shouldn't work.  If you
> send me a stack trace, I should be able to help.  Note the
> instructions in vinum(4).
> 
vn devices are file based.
I prety shure that it's strategy function can't be called in interrupt context
as happens in Raid5 cases.
vn calls VOP_READ and VOP_WRITE directly from strategy without a queue like
real disk drivers do.

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B.Walter                  COSMO-Project              http://www.cosmo-project.de
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