On Tuesday, 18 April 2000 at 21:32:34 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Chad David wrote:
>> I just put together a 5 disk raid5 system using
>> vinum on 4.0 from last Wed., and I am experiencing
>> random panics. I can force the panic by working on
>> the filesystem, but sometimes just having it mounted
>> kills the machine.
>>
>> I compiled a debug kernel, and got a crash dump, but
>> I am not an expert at debugging crash dumps, so any
>> advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Instead of dumping out fifty pages of kernel and
>> hardware config could anyone who is working on this
>> let me know what would be helpful...
Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html.
> I bet you see the same problem as others do....
> In my book vinum on 4.0 is plain broken.
I think that's overstating the case. We've seen some problems with
Vinum RAID-5 on IDE drives, but I can't reproduce them here. Søren's
looking at the problem. As Søren also indicates, the fxp board seems
to aggravate the problem.
> If its an option for you, vinum under -current works better but its
> still far from stable.
I believe we have exactly the same problems in -CURRENT. It's also
currently not being maintained.
Greg
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