Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:17:52 -0400 From: Mark Bucciarelli <mark@gaiahost.coop> To: Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@stud.ntnu.no> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum raid5 in production Message-ID: <20060912191752.GB3164@rabbit>
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:37:33PM +0200, Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > Quoting Mark Bucciarelli <mark@gaiahost.coop>: > > > Is anybody using gvinum raid5 in production with 6.1-release? How is > > it > > going? > > > > I run gvinum raid5 in 6.1 Release on a light production server, and I've > not encountered any problems so far, but it _should_ work :) > > About the PR's you found I'm not sure of what's a gvinum bug or not of > them, but at the thing about not checking NULL pointers for g_malloc is > because when passing the M_WAITOK flag to g_malloc (or kernel malloc > for instance), it is guaranteed to not return NULL because the flag > tells malloc to wait for resources to be freed. Guaranteed to either return non-NULL or produce a KASSERT failure. From the backtrace it look like the latter happened to bug reporter. So not a geom bug. RW's fxr is handy. :) m
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