Re: vinum problems with todays current

2003-08-14 Thread Rob
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 5 August 2003 at 22:21:41 +0200, Rob wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob writes: Hi all, After cvs'upping (about 12 hours ago) and building world/kernel vinum stopped working. It does show my two disks but nothing more. I

vinum problems with todays current

2003-08-14 Thread Rob
Hi all, After cvs'upping (about 12 hours ago) and building world/kernel vinum stopped working. It does show my two disks but nothing more. I also get an error message right after the bootloader: msgbuf cksum mismatch (read a5886, calc a5efb)

Re: vinum problems with todays current

2003-08-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 5 August 2003 at 22:21:41 +0200, Rob wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob writes: Hi all, After cvs'upping (about 12 hours ago) and building world/kernel vinum stopped working. It does show my two disks but nothing more. I also get an error message

Re: vinum problems with todays current

2003-08-14 Thread Rob
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob writes: Hi all, After cvs'upping (about 12 hours ago) and building world/kernel vinum stopped working. It does show my two disks but nothing more. I also get an error message right after the bootloader: Can you try this patch:

Re: vinum problems with todays current

2003-08-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 8 August 2003 at 16:04:05 +0200, Rob wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 5 August 2003 at 22:21:41 +0200, Rob wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob writes: Hi all, After cvs'upping (about 12 hours ago) and building world/kernel vinum

Re: vinum problems with todays current

2003-08-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob writes: Hi all, After cvs'upping (about 12 hours ago) and building world/kernel vinum stopped working. It does show my two disks but nothing more. I also get an error message right after the bootloader: Can you try this patch: Index: spec_vnops.c

Re: Vinum problems

2002-04-15 Thread Patrick Hartling
Bernd, This sounds very promising, but I want to make sure I do this correctly. When you say to remove the plexes, that means to use 'vinum rm' with appropriate options, correct? As far as reconfiguring, can I use the output from 'vinum printconfig' as the input configuration file?

Re: Vinum problems

2002-04-15 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:08:43PM -0500, Patrick Hartling wrote: Bernd, This sounds very promising, but I want to make sure I do this correctly. When you say to remove the plexes, that means to use 'vinum rm' with appropriate options, correct? As far as reconfiguring, can I

Re: Vinum problems

2002-04-13 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:46:29PM -0500, Patrick Hartling wrote: I suffered a system crash earlier today running -current from April 10. I have a Vinum volume set up as a mirror, and during the reboot, I had to fsck it. Everything seemed normal (at least that's what I thought), but now

Vinum problems

2002-04-12 Thread Patrick Hartling
I suffered a system crash earlier today running -current from April 10. I have a Vinum volume set up as a mirror, and during the reboot, I had to fsck it. Everything seemed normal (at least that's what I thought), but now my volume cannot be mounted. The output from 'vinum list' is as

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: If it is to be counted as my only achivement on -core that I timed out SLICE and DEVFS, I'll still be proud of what I did there. Well you timed them out without askling the developer what he had in the wings and that was more than impolite, it was stupid, because

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: Well you timed them out without askling the developer what he had in the wings and that was more than impolite, it was stupid, because most of the shortcomings of devfs and SLICE had been solved and all I was waiting for was the CAM

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-17 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Your MUA wraps incorrectly. On Friday, 17 August 2001 at 9:16:59 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer writes: Well you timed them out without askling the developer what he had in

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Julian Elischer writes: Well you timed them out without askling the developer what he had in the wings and that was more than impolite, it was stupid, because most of the shortcomings of devfs and SLICE had been solved and all I was waiting for was the CAM

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Julian Elischer writes: Well you timed them out without askling the developer what he had in the wings and that was more than impolite, it was stupid, because most of the shortcomings of devfs and SLICE had been

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Julian Elischer writes: Well you timed them out without askling the developer what he had in the wings and that was more than impolite, it was stupid, because

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 16 August 2001 at 6:36:45 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: On Wednesday, 15 August 2001 at 19:17:47 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: the lack of subdirectory support is a

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: ls -la /dev/fd What am I supposed to see there? I get three character devices, all mounted on /dev directly. Uhm, have you forgotten how ls(1) works ? No. Try this then: ls -lad /dev/fd /dev/fd/[012] Hmm. Strange. Last time

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-16 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 16 August 2001 at 6:36:45 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: In view of the fact that this thread is about deficiencies in your devfs, this is particularly uncalled for. One of the reasons

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: After 3 years I gave up on the hope that it would ever be fixed well enough to become politically acceptable. After 6 years I removed it. A quick script run on the cvs tree paints this picture of number of commits to src/sys/miscfs/devfs

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: A quick script run on the cvs tree paints this picture of number of commits to src/sys/miscfs/devfs per year: julian phk other 199556 3 15 199620

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-16 Thread Michael Lucas
[cc's trimmed] John, Thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate it. I did as you suggested (diff below). It paniced again, but this time savecore said dump time is unreasonable. The short panic message was: panicstr: bremfree: bp 0xcc2a1ae4 not locked Looks like the same thing to me, sorry.

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-16 Thread John Baldwin
On 16-Aug-01 Michael Lucas wrote: [cc's trimmed] John, Thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate it. I did as you suggested (diff below). It paniced again, but this time savecore said dump time is unreasonable. The short panic message was: panicstr: bremfree: bp 0xcc2a1ae4 not

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: A quick script run on the cvs tree paints this picture of number of commits to src/sys/miscfs/devfs per year: julian phk other 199556

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: A quick script run on the cvs tree paints this picture of number of commits to src/sys/miscfs/devfs per year: julian phk other 199556

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-16 Thread Boris Popov
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Julian feels he has no avenue of recourse and gives up..-- if (!strcmp(DEVFS, SLICE)) return (ECONFUSED); Julian, you had four years, during which you didn't even manage to make half of the commits made to the DEVFS code

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-15 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]-- | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Kenneth Milton | writes: | +---[ Greg Lehey ]-- | | | | [snip] | | | whether it's been fixed. Basically, devfs as supplied in CURRENT had | | a 16 character limit on device

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Kenneth Milton writes: The problem turns up most violently within the XFree86 DRI Module, since it now uses make_dev, and not mknod as it used to. The DRI Module first attempts to mkdir /dev/dri/, and then for each card it supports attempts to use

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-15 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]-- | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Kenneth Milton | writes: | | The problem turns up most violently within the XFree86 DRI Module, since | it now uses make_dev, and not mknod as it used to. | | The DRI Module first attempts to mkdir

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Kenneth Milton writes: +---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]-- | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Kenneth Milton | writes: | | The problem turns up most violently within the XFree86 DRI Module, since | it now uses make_dev, and not mknod as

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Lucas
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:21:39AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 14 August 2001 at 19:26:09 -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: Before I start generating crash dumps etc., are there any gotchas with Vinum -current? I'm using devfs on a SMP system, upgraded 3 days ago. I get a panic

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-15 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]-- | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Kenneth Milton | writes: | +---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]-- | | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Kenneth Milton | | writes: | | | | The problem turns up most violently within the

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-15 Thread Julian Elischer
the lack of subdirectory support is a pitty. it was a primary design goal in the previous devfs and its disappearance caught me by surprise. (the support I mean) On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: +---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]-- | In message [EMAIL

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: the lack of subdirectory support is a pitty. There is support for subdirectories: ls -la /dev/fd it was a primary design goal in the previous devfs and its disappearance caught me by surprise. (the support I mean) SATIRE The

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Lucas
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:21:39AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: To help localize this problem, could you please try this same thing on a kernel without devfs? The dump you sent me did not look like a Vinum bug, as I said in my reply. Sorry, it happens on a non-devfs kernel as well. Since it

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 15-Aug-01 Michael Lucas wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:21:39AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: To help localize this problem, could you please try this same thing on a kernel without devfs? The dump you sent me did not look like a Vinum bug, as I said in my reply. Sorry, it happens on a

devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 August 2001 at 19:17:47 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: the lack of subdirectory support is a pitty. There is support for subdirectories: ls -la /dev/fd What am I supposed to see there? I get three character

RE: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-15 Thread Brandon (home)
[snip] And in general, can we stop the high incidence of mud-slinging we've seen on the lists lately? Here, here! Brandon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: devfs deficiencies (was: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?))

2001-08-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: On Wednesday, 15 August 2001 at 19:17:47 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ju lian Elischer writes: the lack of subdirectory support is a pitty. There is support for subdirectories: ls -la /dev/fd What am I

any -current vinum problems?

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Lucas
Before I start generating crash dumps etc., are there any gotchas with Vinum -current? I'm using devfs on a SMP system, upgraded 3 days ago. I get a panic whenever I stripe something. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary

devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 14 August 2001 at 19:26:09 -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: Before I start generating crash dumps etc., are there any gotchas with Vinum -current? I'm using devfs on a SMP system, upgraded 3 days ago. I get a panic whenever I stripe something. Ah, now you say devfs. There was a

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-14 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Greg Lehey ]-- | [snip] | whether it's been fixed. Basically, devfs as supplied in CURRENT had | a 16 character limit on device names, and it didn't understand | subdirectories: it treated the / as a part of the device name. The subdir part bit me about a week

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Kenneth Milton writes: +---[ Greg Lehey ]-- | [snip] | whether it's been fixed. Basically, devfs as supplied in CURRENT had | a 16 character limit on device names, and it didn't understand | subdirectories: it treated the / as a

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 August 2001 at 7:16:02 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Kenneth Milton writes: +---[ Greg Lehey ]-- [snip] whether it's been fixed. Basically, devfs as supplied in CURRENT had a 16 character limit on device

Re: devfs and Vinum (was: any -current vinum problems?)

2001-08-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: I'm working on the 16char limit problem as well, but I want to avoid allocating memory in incovenient circumstances if at all possible. The problem is that I kept having problems with the devfs/vinum combination even after increasing the size

Re: NFS/Vinum problems

2000-03-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
:The thing is i'm not sure if it's vinum, I could also duplicate this on :another machine without vinum.. except I duplicated it differently.. : :Consider the following perl script: : :#!/usr/bin/perl :for ( ; ; ) { :system("fetch http://www.web.site/index.html"); :} : :Of course,

Re: NFS/Vinum problems

2000-03-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
::Jason DiCioccio Another possibility -- could you post your 'dmesg' output? One thing that NFS does do is severely exercise both the network and the SCSI device in a concurrent fashion. If you happen to be using an NCR SCSI chipset, that could be the cause of the problem

Re: NFS/Vinum problems

2000-03-31 Thread Systems Administrator
Here is my dmesg output, and btw, sorry.. the perl script was not running on the NFS volume, just regularly on a regular 4.0 box, and it crashed the box (yes, I had login limits set), I was just giving another example of what seems to be some instability in 4.0 under high loads.. Here my dmesg

Re: NFS/Vinum problems

2000-03-31 Thread Systems Administrator
One more thing, here's my kernel config file just in case you need it: machine i386 cpu I586_CPU ident RAID maxusers64 makeoptions DEBUG=-g#Build kernel with gdb(1) debug options DDB_UNATTENDED options INET

NFS/Vinum problems

2000-03-30 Thread Systems Administrator
panic: lockmgr: pid -2, exclusive lock holder 5 unlocking Syncing disks... Timedout SCB handled by another timeout Timedout handled by another timeout That is what I get when doing a 'du -k' on an NFS mount from a remote machine.. THe machine I am speaking of is the actual nfs server, i'm

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 15, Mathew Kanner wrote: On Mar 15, Greg Lehey wrote: attention yet, but I do see that your problem relates to soft updates. It's not clear that the soft updates themselves are a cause of the problem, or just a facilitator, but it would be interesting to I did try it couple

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
Ok, this is NOT a softupdates *or* a vinum problem. This is a buffer cache problem. The problem is due to the large block size you are using when newfs'ing the filesystem coupled with problems in geteblk() which causes severe buffer cache KVM fragmentation. Softupdates

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
Oh, addendum... I didn't see this email regarding an actual panic. There are two problems here, one of which (the nbufkv lockup) should be solved by my previous email. The second problem is this panic you are reporting, and I have no idea what is causing it so this issue

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 23, Matthew Dillon wrote: Oh, addendum... I didn't see this email regarding an actual panic. There are two problems here, one of which (the nbufkv lockup) should be solved by my previous email. The second problem is this panic you are reporting, and I have no idea

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 March 2000 at 16:29:03 -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote: On Mar 15, Mathew Kanner wrote: On Mar 15, Soren Schmidt wrote: Btw are you running the latest 4.0 or -current code ? there was a time when we had problems with the HPT and Promise controllers ? The kernel in question

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-15 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 15, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Mathew Kanner wrote: disks on Promise controllers. I believe that the problems lies with multiple cards on the same interupt but what do I know -- execpt that the problem goes away when I disable most devices in the BIOS. The motherboard is

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mathew Kanner wrote: Hi All, I wanted to document my difficuties with Vinum and multiple disks on Promise controllers. I believe that the problems lies with multiple cards on the same interupt but what do I know -- execpt that the problem goes away when I disable most

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-15 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 15, Mathew Kanner wrote: On Mar 15, Soren Schmidt wrote: Btw are you running the latest 4.0 or -current code ? there was a time when we had problems with the HPT and Promise controllers ? The kernel in question was cvsup'ed right at the change. I'm going to try 4.0 today.

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-15 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 15, Greg Lehey wrote: Replying to myself. By now this is probably the wrong list. I'm not sure what to do anymore. I've tried to set the bios settings back to what I've had when it worked it it doesn't seem to want to go. I've set the drives for ata/66 and ata/33. I've

ata + vinum problems

2000-03-14 Thread Mathew Kanner
Hi All, I wanted to document my difficuties with Vinum and multiple disks on Promise controllers. I believe that the problems lies with multiple cards on the same interupt but what do I know -- execpt that the problem goes away when I disable most devices in the BIOS.