From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 14:18:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6578D150F8 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:18:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com (srmail.sr.hp.com [15.4.45.14]) by palrel1.hp.com (8.8.6/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id OAA18259; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:17:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA041632662; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:17:42 -0800 Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id OAA07159; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:17:41 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903162217.OAA07159@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Greg Lehey Cc: Brad Knowles , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum questions? Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 08:24:14 +1030." <19990317082414.O429@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.1.1.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:17:41 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey 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 DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message