Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:17:41 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum questions? Message-ID: <199903162217.OAA07159@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:24:14 %2B1030." <19990317082414.O429@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> >> As I said: I've found that you do NOT have to do this if you first
> >> do a "vinum stop" on all vinum volumes.
> >
> > Oops, sorry. I don't know how, but I must have missed that
> > part.
>
> Because it's not true. I've told Darryl this in private mail. It
> doesn't help to disseminate incorrect information.
I'm a bit confused. I do know that it's not required (and is, as
you say, incorrect), according to the vinum documentation, but it does
seem to be needed by 3.1-RELEASE. With 3.1-RELEASE, I had problems with
spontaneous resets/reboots after a "vinum resetconfig". Once I started
doing "vinum stop" before resetconfig, my spontaneous reset problems
went away (however, my spontaneous resets were intermittent, which seems
to be slightly different than Brad's experience).
I can only speak for 3.1-RELEASE, as that's all I currently have.
I do hope to try 3.1-STABLE (I've cvsup'd the repository), but I don't
know when I'll have the time (at my current rate, it'l be weeks ;-(). I
can only assume that the incorrect "vinum stop" is no longer needed by
newer versions of FreeBSD (you've been doing a lot of great work on
vinum).
Using 3.1-RELEASE (note that I do not yet have the time to try a
newer version), what do you suggest I do? If I don't do a "vinum stop"
before resetconfig, I get intermittent spontaneous resets. Yes, it is
technically unnecessary, but how do I otherwise avoid the resets? If I
do a "vinum stop" before resetconfig, everything's fine. I know -- I've
gone through several "vinum stop/vinum resetconfig/vinum config" cycles
(for benchmarking my system), and so I know that the "vinum stop" method
works (for me, at least).
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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