From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 19:10:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F1337B405 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9BD1181336; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:40:25 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:40:25 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "James A. Peltier" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum questions (Greg) Message-ID: <20020409114025.D9535@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1018296999.2966.10.camel@agent-orange.int.site-fx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1018296999.2966.10.camel@agent-orange.int.site-fx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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