From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 26 18:24:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0955614BE4 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA10300; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:53:11 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA03213; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:53:09 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:53:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Matthew Dillon , "John W. DeBoskey" , julian@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current kernel problems (spec_getpages & vm_fault) Message-ID: <19990827105309.E483@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199908262013.NAA24637@apollo.backplane.com> <872.935699727@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <872.935699727@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:35:27PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 26 August 1999 at 22:35:27 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199908262013.NAA24637@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: >> That fixes a problem with ccd, but not the one causing John's failures. >> >> You will note that with John's failure's the I/O is properly page-aligned. >> The fix to ccd deals with a misalignment problem. > > No it doesn't. johns failure is clearly the si_bsize* problem, the > tell-tale sign is all the zeros in there. What John didn't tell > us is if he uses vn, ccd or vinum (or something else!) Indirectly he told us that he's not using Vinum. If you're running Vinum, you'll see something like this in the dmesg output: ... da4: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-CCS device da4: 3.300MB/s transfers da4: 573MB (1173930 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 573C) vinum: loaded vinum: reading configuration from /dev/da5e vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da3h vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da4h vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da1s1h vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da2h Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message