From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 29 19:17:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CBB15983; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:17:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA84978; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:48:29 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:48:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: HEADS UP! Problems upgrading Vinum to 3.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <19990930114828.A488@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just found and fixed a bug in Vinum which can cause the system to crash on start. It didn't exist in 3.2, and is fixed in 3.3-STABLE. Briefly, 3.3 now allows you to put Vinum drives on any partition on any slice, and it checks these slices on start. If you don't have any slice entries (/dev/da0s1a and friends), however, it will panic after (incorrectly) reporting some subdisks to be crashed. This bug does not cause data corruption. This bug has been fixed in 3.3-STABLE. A copy of the kld is available at ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/vinum/vinum.ko-3.3-STABLE-30Sep1999. Note also that when upgrading from FreeBSD 3.2 to FreeBSD 3.3, you must ensure that your Vinum drives are of type Vinum. disklabel(8) should show: 3 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2048000 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 1042) c: 2048000 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1042) If your partition is of type 'unused', change it with 'disklabel -e'. To find out about current bugs in Vinum, see http://www.lemis.com/vinum/bugs.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message