On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:07:55PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 May 2003 at 21:34:21 -0600, Tillman wrote:
> > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 12:36:05PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, 6 May 2003 at 11:43:14 -0600, Tillman wrote:
> >>> Quick problem summary
> >>> =====================
> >>>
> >>> `vinum ld` reports 5120M of available free space on a drive that is
> >>> actually full.
> > <snip>
> >>> Version info
> >>> ============
> >>>
> >>> I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE (Tue Apr 29 10:26:03 CST 2003), with no
> >>> changes to kernel or vinum sources.
> >>
> >> Yes, I've found and fixed a bug in this area. I'll MFC it to the
> >> 4-STABLE branch in a few days.
> >
> > Will the new code transparently correct the avail space reported (and
> > whatever issues are behind that) or will I need to backup -> recreate ->
> > restore?
>
> The problem is simply in the in-core calculations of space on the
> drive. It doesn't affect anything on disk, so stopping and restarting
> Vinum will fix it. The only potential danger is if you create new
> subdisks on a drive. It's possible that they might overlap existing
> ones, but I'm not even sure of that. You can see the drive free list
> with 'vinum ld -v'. If that's correct, it's not a problem.
>
> Greg
It took over a month, but I finally found an excuse to reboot that box
(caught up on -STABLE), and `vinum ld` does indeed report the correct
free space again.
A belated thanks,
- Tillman
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