On Tuesday, 30 December 2003 at 14:15:44 -0500, Stephen Corbesero wrote: > > I hope this is information is useful. I am really hoping to have a > working vinum in FreeBSD 5.x. > > As we all know, vinum has been cranky for a little while now. It > seemed to work fine for me in the early 5.0's, but went 'south" > sometime as the 5.1's began coming out. Well, what happened were incompatibilities with changes introduced with GEOM. Specifically, swap on Vinum currently doesn't work, and it'll take a rewrite before it does. > I have been playing with it on a couple of machines at work, and I > have noticed the following behaviors. I am mostly playing with > mirroring some volumes on two IDE drives. > > * If I start vinum manually after the system is up, and shut it down > manually before I do a reboot, the configuration seems to survive > just fine. On the next boot, I can again start vinum manually, > the drives are read, and I can mount the partitions. > > * If I let vinum come up automatically (setting start_vinum="YES" in > rc.conf), then one of the following will happen. > > a) a system panic before the boot process is completed Do you have a dump? > b) at least one of the vinum can not be found, so anything that > drive is down/faulty. did discover, however, that if I > recreate the drive in vinum, the plexes cheerfully come > back. Do you have log files? > c) the vinum drives can be found, but no volumes are defined > anymore More details? > If this is useful, and someone would like more information, I'll be > happy to continue my experiments. This level of information is not very useful. I do all these things all the time, and I don't have problems. On the other hand, if you're having problems, I'd like to know why. Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and supply the appropriate information. That way we have a hope of solving the problems. FWIW, most problems I've seen with Vinum have been pilot error. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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