Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-06 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 07:44:56AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some time ago Scott Long pointed out to me that ccd has less overhead than vinum It does? The actual tests showed a very little improvement in a few cases, so I must admit that it made really no

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
Yes, ccd is fairly light weight. 'man tuning' and 'man ccd' has a lot of information on how to use it. I generally recommend using a stripe size of 1152 for multitasking loads. Only use a small/tiny stripe size if you need single-tasking sequential performance (and even

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-05 Thread Bruce Evans
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Worst case you will have the option to use: options NOGEOM options vinum A NOGEOM option would be as acceptable as a NOFFS option for turning off forcing of the one true file system down everyone's throats. Bruce To Unsubscribe:

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-05 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:45:59PM -0700, Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the showstopper is in vinum. The fact that ccd(4) works seamlessly with GEOM is testament to this. For some reason I was under the (mis?)impression that ccd was no longer being maintained... If it works

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-05 Thread Peter Wemm
Bruce Evans wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Worst case you will have the option to use: options NOGEOM options vinum A NOGEOM option would be as acceptable as a NOFFS option for turning off forcing of the one true file system down everyone's throats.

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-05 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: Bruce Evans wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Worst case you will have the option to use: options NOGEOM options vinum A NOGEOM option would be as acceptable as a NOFFS option for turning off forcing of the one

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce Evans writes: On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: Bruce Evans wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Worst case you will have the option to use: options NOGEOM options vinum A NOGEOM option would be as acceptable as a

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-05 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:44:30PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the responsibility to make older subsystems work. So when is a KSE person going to fix the libc_r and releng4 binaries problem?? That certainly is old

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 5 October 2002 at 15:55:05 +0300, Vallo Kallaste wrote: On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:45:59PM -0700, Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the showstopper is in vinum. The fact that ccd(4) works seamlessly with GEOM is testament to this. For some reason I was under the

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-05 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, David O'Brien wrote: On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:44:30PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the responsibility to make older subsystems work. So when is a KSE person going to fix the libc_r and releng4

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread n0go013
On 04.10-18:27, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message n0go013 writes : On 04.10-15:40, fergus wrote: On 04.10-14:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [...] I suspect vinum uses this sysctl to get an inventory of disks in the system, so can I get you to try again making sure you have

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], n0go013 writes : On 04.10-18:27, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message n0go013 writes : On 04.10-15:40, fergus wrote: On 04.10-14:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [...] I suspect vinum uses this sysctl to get an inventory of disks in the system, so can I

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Lars Eggert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I would need to look at the code to be able to tell, I don't have time for that. I'd consider not having vinum work under geom a show-stopper... at least until geom can stripe. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Eggert writes: This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --ms040706010906030302070807 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I would need to look at the

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Lars Eggert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Eggert writes: I'd consider not having vinum work under geom a show-stopper... at least until geom can stripe. Well, the showstopper is in vinum. The fact that ccd(4) works seamlessly with GEOM is testament to this. For some

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Eggert writes: This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --ms040706010906030302070807 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread John Baldwin
On 04-Oct-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Eggert writes: This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --ms040706010906030302070807 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii;

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the responsibility to make older subsystems work. I'm _so_ glad to hear _you_ say that: When will you have made KSE work on sparc64 and ia64 ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Daniel Holmes
Lars Eggert wrote: For some reason I was under the (mis?)impression that ccd was no longer being maintained... If it works with geom, we can probably move our machines over to ccd. They're all no-frills stripes, so ccd functionality is good enough. From the man page of ccd: ccd has an

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Holmes write s: As I understand vinum ccd (please correct me if I am wrong), this will keep ccd from ever achieving the performance and ease of use of vinum. I don't think anybody advocated ccd as a wholesale replacement for vinum. That being said, I have

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: On 04-Oct-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Eggert writes: This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format.

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the responsibility to make older subsystems work. I'm _so_ glad to hear _you_ say that: When will you have made KSE

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread John Baldwin
On 04-Oct-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: On 04-Oct-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Eggert writes: This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format.

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the responsibility to make older subsystems work. I'm _so_ glad to hear _you_ say that: When will you have made

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel E ischen writes: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the responsibility to make older subsystems work. I'm _so_ glad

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, John Baldwin wrote: Oh, you mean like KSE on Alpha? What existing functionality on the alpha does KSE stop? So you agree that requiring vinum users to turn off GEOM is ok? Part of adding a new feature is providing proof of concept that it works for more

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Terry Lambert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the responsibility to make older subsystems work. I'm _so_ glad to hear _you_ say that: When will you have made KSE work on sparc64 and

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel E ischen writes: On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: No, it is established principal tha the importer of new features has the

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:02 PM +0200 10/4/02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: There are numerous architectural issues which have never been fixed in vinum, and one or more of these bits now. Whoever loves vinum will have to chase it/them down and fix it. If I receive patches or requests for changes to GEOM as result of