Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:46:35 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Danny Carroll <danny@dannysplace.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with Vinum disk crash... Message-ID: <20040224001635.GM87020@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1077536659.61xvlite2kso@mailsrv.dannysplace.net> References: <00ed01c3f559$d7f1ac20$8052260a@capgemini.nl> <20040217223827.GM33797@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1077093269.15aypd5fp76s@mailsrv.dannysplace.net> <20040218111653.GB289@marvin.home.local> <1077106518.yyrhxqeampw@mailsrv.dannysplace.net> <20040218140429.GG289@marvin.home.local> <1077180395.4prky8v4skqo@mailsrv.dannysplace.net> <20040219222221.GA88317@marvin.home.local> <20040223043113.GV87020@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1077536659.61xvlite2kso@mailsrv.dannysplace.net>
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--wYx7iHgGHd1LEkZJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 23 February 2004 at 12:44:19 +0100, Danny Carroll wrote: > Greg, > > Thanks for all the responses. Unfortunatly I ran out of time and resorted to a > restore of week old data. No big loss for me, but I really wanted to debug > this to better understand what happened. > > I think it went something like this: > > ide drive crashes. > kernel panics (for this or some other reason). > ufs gets screwed up on the drive because of the panic. We already discussed this. The likelihood of such far-reaching damage is low. > I can't prove any of this since I urgently needed about 150gb of > space. So I re-formatted. > > Like I said it is a shame since I wanted to understand what happened > now, but, then again, I was looking for an excuse to change back > from vinum to normal. To be honest, I don't know what else we could have done, since you haven't supplied the information I asked for. > vinum and ide on my system results is very poor disk performance, I > see a 10-fold increase in read/write actions. I'll be interested in > revisiting vinum with some SCSI disks sometime soon. How did you test it? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --wYx7iHgGHd1LEkZJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAOpfjIubykFB6QiMRAhmKAJ9UN0tpj2M2h1ZBjSJn4RJQCKK5AACeNCdP JTYm0HLnXP+S+zDXNewykes= =tRu+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wYx7iHgGHd1LEkZJ--
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