From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 22:34:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04D516A4CF for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:34:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from storage0.flag.rootnode.com (adsl-65-67-81-98.dsl.ltrkar.swbell.net [65.67.81.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD7943D48 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:34:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@osoft.us) Received: from [10.0.1.105] (coherence.flag.rootnode.com [10.0.1.105]) by storage0.flag.rootnode.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB7E60F2; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:34:15 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <421278D9.4000700@osoft.us> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:34:01 -0600 From: Joe Koberg User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aristedes Maniatis References: <20050214110826.56fa6cf3@rhino> <704a9148fcbc9b5d57f075e5b7f7da5d@ish.com.au> In-Reply-To: <704a9148fcbc9b5d57f075e5b7f7da5d@ish.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gvinum or vinum in 5.3-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:34:17 -0000 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" >