From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 15 16:34:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C73B37B407 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:34:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from doby.excite.com ([199.172.152.182]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20010915233438.LUJB22472.kuku.excite.com@doby.excite.com>; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:34:38 -0700 Message-ID: <33343543.1000596877983.JavaMail.imail@doby.excite.com> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:34:32 -0700 (PDT) From: john_wilson100@excite.com To: Bernd Walter Subject: Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 62.90.91.23 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:52:06 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:26:10PM -0700, john_wilson100@excite.com wrote: > > I posted a message to -hackers several days ago, complete with a kernel > > backtrace. The panic is 100% reproducible on my machine running the > > latest -stable. > > I saw two unsualy points in your config. > 1. why use more than one vinum partition per physical drive? > vinum itself handles it very well - it's a volume manager. If one gets corrupted (for whatever reason), the other one will keep going (assuming that one volume will not touch another's partitions) > 2. I don't think that a stripe size not matching n * page size is a > good choice. > Both points shouldn't crash your box but it's at least not very common. A stripe size that is a power of 2 will put all superblocks on the same subdisk. > > Does anyone care? My message to Greg Lehey was rejected by his mail server, > > but I am pretty sure he reads both -hackers and -stable. > > There must be a reson to reject. Let's hear it. John > > -- > B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de > ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de > _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message