Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 03:16:02 +0200 From: FreeBSD questions mailing list <FreeBSD@amadeus.demon.nl> To: web@3dresearch.com Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device Message-ID: <8F645B9F-365A-4D82-896E-69A9ADDB7EB8@amadeus.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050527103652.05d9b538@imap.telissant.com> References: <F1siqXKx.1117141831.8494430.janos@imap.3dresearch.com> <E7568E07-D0E9-40D6-8558-76134712D0E6@amadeus.demon.nl> <6.2.1.2.0.20050527101153.05fd37b0@imap.telissant.com> <74B17732-6E54-4C34-B899-201DA91F5B91@amadeus.demon.nl> <6.2.1.2.0.20050527103652.05d9b538@imap.telissant.com>
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On 27 mei 2005, at 16:38, web@3dresearch.com wrote: > > >>> [...] >>> >>> not very encouraging... Is it a RAID 5 you were able to make work >>> under 5.4? >>> >>> jd >>> >>> >> hey >> yeah a 3x160 GB RAID5 and 2x80 GB RAID 1 in FreeBSD 5.4-p1 >> i get the same error message everytime i start vinum or whenever i >> execute a command in vinum >> and really loads of kernel panics whenever i try to get it to work >> after a crash >> i have an unorthodox way of recovering from this because it's nearly >> impossible to do stuff in vinum without causing kernel panics >> yesterday evrything was ruined again (after upgrading to p1) >> i wiped the complete config (rest config - NO FUTURE) >> read in the config file (create RAID5) >> set every state up manually (setstate up ...) >> and rebuild parity >> took about 10 hours to rebuild but then everything is back up and >> running >> >> i tried Gvinum too but that doesn't have the setstate nor the ruibld >> parity command and still you can't stop gvinum (gvinum stop doesn't >> work, nor does kldunload geom_vinum.ko) >> >> i have no way of changing to a different soft raid due to lack of >> space to backup so i'm stuck with this for as lo0ng as it takes :) >> >> so, one advice "don't do it" >> hehehe >> Arno >> > > Many thanx... I guess I better stick with 4.11 > > jd > > you're welcome maybe the complete vinum chapter should be removed from the handbook? Arno
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