On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:52:06 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:26:10PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
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