Vinum breakage - please update UPDATING

2003-11-21 Thread Marcus Reid
Hello, I just upgraded a -CURRENT box this afternoon to discover that vinum is broken. If I hadn't done dumps of my working world beforehand I would be in pretty sad shape. Should UPDATING make note of this breakage? It would have saved me some embarassment, and I'm sure others are about to

Re: Vinum breakage - please update UPDATING

2003-11-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 15:42:12 -0800, Marcus Reid wrote: Hello, I just upgraded a -CURRENT box this afternoon to discover that vinum is broken. If I hadn't done dumps of my working world beforehand I would be in pretty sad shape. Should UPDATING make note of this breakage? No.

Re: Vinum breakage - please update UPDATING

2003-11-21 Thread Marcus Reid
Hi Greg, On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:05:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 15:42:12 -0800, Marcus Reid wrote: Hello, I just upgraded a -CURRENT box this afternoon to discover that vinum is broken. If I hadn't done dumps of my working world beforehand I

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-25 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 April 2000 at 11:43:52 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: Also, as a general note to everyone, make sure you are building vinum into the kernel directly and not using it as a kld, just to ensure that it stays in sync with the kernel. Isn't this in direct

Re: Vinum breakage (was: 2nd call for reviews and tests: buf-bio patch)

2000-04-05 Thread Brian Dean
Greg Lehey wrote: Technical explanation: A buffer header gets corrupted between the time the top half of the driver issues the request to the disk driver, and when the I/O completes. Currently, the evidence is pointing towards the disk driver, but the corruption is of such an

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
I've tracked down two bugs in vinum's raid5 implementation and submitted a tentitive patch to Greg for evaluation. It seems to fix the panics I was able to reproduce. The patch is available (but note that once Greg commits the real fix, you need to wipe it before you cvs

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
(needless to say, the patch I posted is relative to FreeBSD-4.x, not 5) -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :On Apr 05, Matthew Dillon wrote: : (needless to say, the patch I posted is relative to FreeBSD-4.x, not 5) : : -Matt : Matthew Dillon : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : Here's

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-05 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
I've tracked down two bugs in vinum's raid5 implementation and submitted a tentitive patch to Greg for evaluation. It seems to fix the panics I was able to reproduce. The patch is available (but note that once Greg commits the real fix, you need to wipe it before you

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:49 AM -0700 2000/4/5, Matthew Dillon wrote: Also, as a general note to everyone, make sure you are building vinum into the kernel directly and not using it as a kld, just to ensure that it stays in sync with the kernel. Isn't this in direct conflict with the

Vinum breakage Summary (was Re: Vinum breakage)

2000-04-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matt, : help me understand your patch. this is how i read it at this :time: : : :Matt has just made available an early patch that corrects the vinum :panic. is this the same vinum panic that people are claiming phk :created with the bio/buf changes? i dont know the vinum code. i dont

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : Also, as a general note to everyone, make sure you are building vinum : into the kernel directly and not using it as a kld, just to ensure that : it stays in sync with the kernel. : : Isn't this in direct conflict with the instructions given for :normally using vinum?

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:43 AM -0700 2000/4/5, Matthew Dillon wrote: This is my personal recommendation - if you are messing around with something that is under development or test, it is best to build it into the kernel to avoid getting out of sync without knowing it. Ahh, okay. Sounds

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000405 12:12] wrote: : : Also, as a general note to everyone, make sure you are building vinum : into the kernel directly and not using it as a kld, just to ensure that : it stays in sync with the kernel. : : Isn't this in direct

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:21 PM -0700 2000/4/5, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Last I checked, doing so is dangerous because by default the userland components of vinum have debugging on which is incompatible with a kernel running vinum without debug (the default when linked in). Correct, I believe that

Re: Vinum breakage

2000-04-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :At 12:21 PM -0700 2000/4/5, Alfred Perlstein wrote: : : Last I checked, doing so is dangerous because by default the userland : components of vinum have debugging on which is incompatible with : a kernel running vinum without debug (the default when linked in). : : Correct, I believe

Re: Vinum breakage Summary (was Re: Vinum breakage)

2000-04-05 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 5 April 2000 at 11:42:40 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: Matt, help me understand your patch. this is how i read it at this time: Matt has just made available an early patch that corrects the vinum panic. is this the same vinum panic that people are claiming phk created

Vinum breakage (was: 2nd call for reviews and tests: buf-bio patch)

2000-04-04 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 4 April 2000 at 15:31:00 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems Brad Knowles wrote: Like I said in a previous message, Poul broke vinum (among other things) under 4.0-STABLE, and this needs to be fixed ASAP. If Poul had kept his changes unique to -CURRENT, then 4.0-STABLE

Vinum breakage (was: 2nd call for reviews and tests: buf-bio patch)

2000-04-04 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 4 April 2000 at 15:33:43 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message v04220803b50f8d254208@[195.238.1.121], Brad Knowles writes: At 8:23 AM +0200 2000/4/4, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: Like I said in another mail, this is CURRENT, things are expected to break. You

Re: Vinum breakage (was: 2nd call for reviews and tests: buf-bio patch)

2000-04-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: The problem in vinum/releng4 is the problem greg has been blaming on CAM since at least FreeBSDcon and indications seems to be that it is actually a malloc/free gottcha in vinum. No, this is not correct. The problem you're talking about I