Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:36:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum raid5 panics Message-ID: <20000419103605.C92373@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200004181932.VAA01404@freebsd.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004181013440.22936-100000@lodge.guild.ab.ca> <200004181932.VAA01404@freebsd.dk>
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On Tuesday, 18 April 2000 at 21:32:34 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Chad David wrote: >> I just put together a 5 disk raid5 system using >> vinum on 4.0 from last Wed., and I am experiencing >> random panics. I can force the panic by working on >> the filesystem, but sometimes just having it mounted >> kills the machine. >> >> I compiled a debug kernel, and got a crash dump, but >> I am not an expert at debugging crash dumps, so any >> advice would be appreciated. >> >> Instead of dumping out fifty pages of kernel and >> hardware config could anyone who is working on this >> let me know what would be helpful... Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html. > I bet you see the same problem as others do.... > In my book vinum on 4.0 is plain broken. I think that's overstating the case. We've seen some problems with Vinum RAID-5 on IDE drives, but I can't reproduce them here. Søren's looking at the problem. As Søren also indicates, the fxp board seems to aggravate the problem. > If its an option for you, vinum under -current works better but its > still far from stable. I believe we have exactly the same problems in -CURRENT. It's also currently not being maintained. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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