From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 13:39:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4136016A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:39:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pastinakel.tue.nl (pastinakel.tue.nl [131.155.2.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB5143D1D for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:39:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: by pastinakel.tue.nl (Postfix, from userid 40) id 3FFB814BD23; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by pastinakel.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B5D14BC7D; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:35 +0100 (CET) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iABDdZKg079710; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stijn) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:39:35 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Kim Helenius Message-ID: <20041111133935.GC635@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Stijn Hoop , Kim Helenius , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041111121746.GY912@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on mailhost.tue.nl X-Spam-DCC: : X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=6.3 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Level: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum configuration lost at vinum stop / start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:39:38 -0000 --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > > > appears it's not restricted to that. > >=20 > > Are you running regular vinum on 5.x? It is known broken. Please use > > 'gvinum' instead. > >=20 > > 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 ne= ed > > 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. >=20 > 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 definatel= y=20 > 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 gvi= num is the way forward. > I'm aware of gvinum and the bug and actually tried to cvsup & make world= =20 > last night but it didn't succeed due to some missing files in netgraph=20 > dirs. I will try again tonight. OK, I think that will help you out. But the strange thing is, RELENG_5 shou= ld 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.ht= ml Particularly the 19.2.2 section, 'Staying stable with FreeBSD'? HTH, --Stijn --=20 I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it. -- Edgar Allan Poe --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBk2uXY3r/tLQmfWcRAukzAKCB3a4xHdtEVTmn6o4r7S7uI0rkfACfQepx Sbl25bpvb3gKsIv+O6tFenE= =sC8p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7--