Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:44:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Subject: Re: CCD vs vinum Message-ID: <19990304144436.A490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990303193018.00a54c80@mail-r>; from Ludwig Pummer on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 07:38:24PM -0800 References: <199903031840.KAA02285@mina.sr.hp.com> <199903031840.KAA02285@mina.sr.hp.com> <19990304124337.X441@lemis.com> <4.1.19990303193018.00a54c80@mail-r>
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On Wednesday, 3 March 1999 at 19:38:24 -0800, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > At 06:13 PM 3/3/99 , Greg Lehey wrote: >>> How serious are the vinum bugs? >> >> Vinum is a much larger package than ccd. To the best of my knowledge, >> the part of vinum which corresponds to ccd is bug-free. The bugs in >> vinum are mainly of the shoot-yourself-in-the-foot variety, and >> they're in the area of configuration management, which ccd doesn't >> have. > > Configuration bugs like having two vinum volumes overlapping...I just shot > myself in the foot by having a /usr2 and /var2 which overlapped. Well, I think you'll find they didn't overlap. There was a problem where it would create a subdisk without storage (marked internally by a drive offset of -1b), but didn't mark it down. I fixed this problem in a commit a day or two ago. > I didn't notice until when I rebooted and vinum kept complaining > about "size -1b" and other things (I won't quote them because I've > already obliterated the vinum config). No worries. > I tried to wring every last sector out of my partition...guess I'll > have to try (later...&#*$ homework now) with more conservative > volume sizes. If you wait a little while, I'm going to accept size 0 as "as large as you can make it". Might be a week or two. Greg -- 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
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