Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:40:25 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "James A. Peltier" <james@site-fx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum questions (Greg) Message-ID: <20020409114025.D9535@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1018296999.2966.10.camel@agent-orange.int.site-fx.net> References: <1018296999.2966.10.camel@agent-orange.int.site-fx.net>
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On Monday, 8 April 2002 at 13:16:39 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering does vinum rebuild parity in the foreground after an > unexpected system reboot/unclean shutdown? or is parity and fsck'ing > done in the background? No, you need to do it manually. > I guess my question is if I implement vinum on a 7x18.3 GB disk > array am I going to have to wait 2 hours for the parity to rebuild > and then an fsck to finish? You should be able to rebuild parity after fsck. It's not really an issue until a drive goes down. But there have been some reports, which I can't reproduce, that rebuilding a mounted file system can corrupt it, so if you want to be really paranoid, you should rebuild first. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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