From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 01:16:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01AAA1065670 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 01:16:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lulf@stud.ntnu.no) Received: from bene1.itea.ntnu.no (bene1.itea.ntnu.no [IPv6:2001:700:300:3::56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431EE8FC0C for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 01:16:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lulf@stud.ntnu.no) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bene1.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99DC91769C0; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 02:16:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from carrot.studby.ntnu.no (unknown [IPv6:2001:700:300:3::184]) by bene1.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0185F16C7B0; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 02:16:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 03:17:20 +0100 From: Ulf Lilleengen To: Hilko Meyer Message-ID: <20081201021720.GA1949@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> References: <20081130153558.GA2120@nobby.lan> <20081130222445.GA1528@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at bene1.itea.ntnu.no Cc: adnan@hochpass.uni-hannover.de, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System freeze with gvinum X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:16:43 -0000 On man, des 01, 2008 at 12:32:22am +0100, Hilko Meyer wrote: > Ulf Lilleengen schrieb: > >On søn, nov 30, 2008 at 09:18:24pm +0100, Hilko Meyer wrote: > >> Ulf Lilleengen schrieb: > >> >On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:47:59PM +0100, Hilko Meyer wrote: > >> >> > >> >> I've tried to set up a raid-5 over three disks with gvinum today with this > >> >> gvinum.conf: > [...] > >> >> Every time I tried to run newfs on one of the volumes it stucked and the > >> >> complete system freezed, so I cannot provide a coredump. The system runs > >> >> 6.4-RELEASE that was compiled today. What can I do to debug this problem? > >> >> > >> >Hmm, do you have any console output before the freeze? Such as g_* messages? > >> > >> Unfortunately nothing. > >> > >> >This might be a gvinum bug, but can also be a problem with the sata driver. > >> > >> How can I test the sata driver? After writing the mail yesterday we > >> used dump|restore to copy several gigabytes to ad4s1a and no problems > >> occured in this test. > >Hmm, ok. Are you willing to try a patch to bring it up to 7.x gvinum? There > >are a few issues in 6.x that may be the cause of your problems. > > Is gvinum in 7.1RC and 7.x the same? We considered to update to 7.1 > before it's released anyway, because we need nfe(4). And wanted to try > gvinum and zfs there. Yes, they are the same. > > But we can test a patch against 6.4 before the big update if you want. > It's really up to you. If you're going to upgrade anyway, it will at least save me from a little bit of work :) > bye, > Hilko > BTW: Your Reply-To: is broken. > Yeah, just noticed :) -- Ulf Lilleengen