Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:37:37 -1000 From: Richard Puga <puga@mauibuilt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: whats up with vinum? Message-ID: <38399B81.DD5D5C44@mauibuilt.com>
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I am fooling around with vinum which I have set up in a raid 5 configuration under FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE The trouble is that my machine keeps locking up under heavy use. If I try and "make world" it dies about 15-60 seconds into it with a page fault as well as trying to ftp over large files and somtimems while trying to build kernels and somtimes vinum just stops responding. After several page faults and fsck's on reboot I will loose an entire drvie. It is marked as "stale"m by vinum and more than once has lost its disklabel. I am now using vinum striping and have been hamering on the drive for days now without fault (doing up to 20 large tar balls at the same time as well as make world and pulling over 40 gigs of data through NFS) but I would like to use vinum raid 5 if possable. I have read the info at http://www.lemis.com/vinum/bugs.html and it describes similar problems with raid 5 and makes a referance to systems running "soft updates" what exactly are soft updates and how do I tell if I am running them and do I need to? Any help or feed back would be greatly apreciated. Thanks in advance Richard Puga puga@mauibuilt.com Below is the latest vinum config I have tried. PS; anyone thinking of playing with vinum I suggest you dont start out with 4 18 gig drives ..:) # Vinum configuration of , saved at Sat Nov 20 02:56:06 1999 drive d1 device /dev/da0e drive d2 device /dev/da1e drive d3 device /dev/da2e drive d4 device /dev/da3e volume puga plex name puga.p0 org raid5 1024s vol puga sd name puga.p0.s0 drive d1 plex puga.p0 len 35565568s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 0s sd name puga.p0.s1 drive d2 plex puga.p0 len 35565568s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 1024s sd name puga.p0.s2 drive d3 plex puga.p0 len 35565568s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 2048s sd name puga.p0.s3 drive d4 plex puga.p0 len 35565568s driveoffset 265s plexoffset 3072s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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