From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 14:38: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92509152EC for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA17178; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:07:39 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA68757; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:07:38 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990317090738.Z429@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:07:38 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Darryl Okahata Cc: Brad Knowles , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum questions? References: <19990317082414.O429@lemis.com> <199903162217.OAA07159@mina.sr.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903162217.OAA07159@mina.sr.hp.com>; from Darryl Okahata on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:17:41PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 16 March 1999 at 14:17:41 -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote: > 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). OK, this may be the case, but you didn't say that in the original message, and Brad was already on his way to 4.0. The trouble is that such statements tend to stick, and people trade them for years afterwards :-) > 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 It was never necessary. I suspect that you might have been able to work around some bug by doing it. But you should upgrade to 4.0-CURRENT as soon as possible. > (you've been doing a lot of great work on vinum). Thanks. > Using 3.1-RELEASE (note that I do not yet have the time to try a > newer version), What's the problem? It takes about 5 minutes to compile the new version on a slow machine. > what do you suggest I do? If I don't do a "vinum stop" before > resetconfig, I get intermittent spontaneous resets. Then do a vinum stop. But the real solution is to get the newer version, which contains a number of other fixes. I'd put binary versions up on the ftp server, but it's unlikely that they would work with 3.1-RELEASE. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message