From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 15 13:35:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BE7F37B405 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:35:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 48211 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Sep 2001 20:35:48 +0000 (GMT) To: ticso@mail.cicely.de Cc: john_wilson100@excite.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:52:06 +0200" References: <20010915215206.E17960@cicely20.cicely.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:35:48 +0200 Message-ID: <48209.1000586148@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I saw two unsualy points in your config. > 1. why use more than one vinum partition per physical drive? > vinum itself handles it very well - it's a volume manager. > 2. I don't think that a stripe size not matching n * page size is a > good choice. There are excellent reasons why you want a stripe size which is *not* a multiple of the page size: To distribute the inodes across all disks. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message