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Date:      Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:34:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      john_wilson100@excite.com
To:        Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE
Message-ID:  <33343543.1000596877983.JavaMail.imail@doby.excite.com>

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On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:52:06 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:

>  On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:26:10PM -0700, john_wilson100@excite.com
wrote:
>  > I posted a message to -hackers several days ago, complete with a kernel
>  > backtrace.    The panic is 100% reproducible on my machine running the
>  > latest -stable.
>  
>  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.

If one gets corrupted (for whatever reason), the other one will keep going
(assuming that one volume will not touch another's partitions)

>  2. I don't think that a stripe size not matching n * page size is a
>     good choice.
>  Both points shouldn't crash your box but it's at least not very common.

A stripe size that is a power of 2 will put all superblocks on the same
subdisk.


>  > Does anyone care?  My message to Greg Lehey was rejected by his mail
server,
>  > but I am pretty sure he reads both -hackers and -stable.
>  
>  There must be a reson to reject.

Let's hear it.

John


>  
>  -- 
>  B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
>  ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de
>





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