From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 18 18: 6:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62A637B92C for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA95169; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:36:06 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:36:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Cc: Chad David , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum raid5 panics Message-ID: <20000419103605.C92373@freebie.lemis.com> References: <200004181932.VAA01404@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200004181932.VAA01404@freebsd.dk> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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