Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:34:01 -0600 From: Joe Koberg <joe@osoft.us> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum or vinum in 5.3-STABLE Message-ID: <421278D9.4000700@osoft.us> In-Reply-To: <704a9148fcbc9b5d57f075e5b7f7da5d@ish.com.au> References: <20050214110826.56fa6cf3@rhino> <704a9148fcbc9b5d57f075e5b7f7da5d@ish.com.au>
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Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > Sorry to butt in on your thread, but it seems relevant. I am having > problems with gvinum under 5-STABLE and a RAID 0 array of two disks. > The array works perfectly until reboot. Then, when the machine comes > back up the plexes are marked as stale. Issuing these commands fixes > the problem until the next reboot: > Once the plexes are UP, issue a 'gvinum saveconfig'. Then try rebooting and see what happens. This has worked for me before with 5.3-R, and today with a recent 5.3-STABLE. Joe Koberg joe@osoft.us > gvinum setstate up storage.p0.s0 > gvinum setstate up storage.p0.s1 > > Things I've tried: > > * Googling for answers > * commenting out the fstab entry at boot and then manually mounting > the partition after boot > * inserting gvinum in /boot/loader.conf > * copying the vinum script in /etc/rc.d/vinum and making a gvinum > equivalent > * trying to shutdown gvinum at shutdown time (but "gvinum stop" > doesn't work) > * fsck > * rebuilding gvinum array > > Is there some shutdown procedure that should gracefully shutdown the > RAID? There is a process which opens files on the RAID and runs > continuously until shutdown. Could it be holding the RAID open too > long and could this staleness? > > From what I can tell the staleness doesn't affect any data - > everything is OK once brought up. > > Cheers > Ari Maniatis > > > > On 14/02/2005, at 11:38 AM, Tristan wrote: > >> Is gvinum >> ready for production use in a RAID5 config ? > > > > > --------------------------> > ish group pty ltd > http://www.ish.com.au > 7 Darghan St Glebe 2037 Australia > phone +61 2 9660 1400 fax +61 2 9660 7400 > PGP fingerprint 08 57 20 4B 80 69 59 E2 A9 BF 2D 48 C2 20 0C C8 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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