Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 00:15:15 +0100 From: Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Nikolaj Hansen <nikolaj.hansen@barnabas.dk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2 Message-ID: <200412190015.16449.msch@snafu.de> In-Reply-To: <1103409359.52279.2.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> References: <41C48A6F.7000203@barnabas.dk> <1103409359.52279.2.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
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Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather: > > The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA > "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" woe that bedevils some of us under 5.3. When > that happens, your mirror will be knocked into a degraded state (half > of your mirrored plexes will be marked down) even though the drive is > okay. Unfortunately, without "setstate" being implemented in "gvinum" > to mark the drive as up, thereby allowing you to issue "gvinum > start"s for the "downed" plexes, there's little more you can do to > get the "failed" drive recognised as being in the "up" state other > than to reboot. [...] 'gvinum setstate' was MFCed from -current together with 'gvinum checkpatity' and 'gvinum rebuildparity' a week ago or so... So that should make it easier to handle these ATA-Problems... -- Ciao/BSD - Matthias Matthias Schuendehuette <msch [at] snafu.de>, Berlin (Germany) PGP-Key at <pgp.mit.edu> and <wwwkeys.de.pgp.net> ID: 0xDDFB0A5F
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