Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:35 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Kim Helenius <tristan@cc.jyu.fi> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start Message-ID: <20041111133935.GC635@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411111527470.17075-100000@silmu.st.jyu.fi> References: <20041111121746.GY912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411111527470.17075-100000@silmu.st.jyu.fi>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:32:58PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:00:52PM +0200, Kim Helenius wrote: > > > Greetings. I posted earlier about problems with vinum raid5 but it > > > appears it's not restricted to that. > > > > Are you running regular vinum on 5.x? It is known broken. Please use > > 'gvinum' instead. > > > > There is one caveat: the gvinum that shipped with 5.3-RELEASE contains an > > error in RAID-5 initialization. If you really need RAID-5 you either need > > to wait for the first patch level release of 5.3, or you can build > > RELENG_5 from source yourself. The fix went in on 2004-11-07. > > Thank you for your answer. I tested normal concat with both 5.2.1-RELEASE and > 5.3-RELEASE with similar results. Plenty of people (at least I get this > impression after browsing several mailing lists and websites) have working > vinum setups with 5.2.1 (where gvinum doesn't exist) so there's definately > something I'm doing wrong here. So my problem is not limited to raid5. I don't know the state of affairs for 5.2.1-RELEASE, but in 5.3-RELEASE gvinum is the way forward. > I'm aware of gvinum and the bug and actually tried to cvsup & make world > last night but it didn't succeed due to some missing files in netgraph > dirs. I will try again tonight. OK, I think that will help you out. But the strange thing is, RELENG_5 should be buildable. Are you sure you are getting that? Have you read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html Particularly the 19.2.2 section, 'Staying stable with FreeBSD'? HTH, --Stijn -- I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it. -- Edgar Allan Poe [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBk2uXY3r/tLQmfWcRAukzAKCB3a4xHdtEVTmn6o4r7S7uI0rkfACfQepx Sbl25bpvb3gKsIv+O6tFenE= =sC8p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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