is vinum in current working for anyone
Stephen Corbesero
flash at cs.moravian.edu
Tue Jan 6 08:08:19 PST 2004
Greg, et al.
Thanks for all the responses.
Here is a status update. I have made an important discovery. I now
load load vinum via loader.conf as recommended (but not yet required)
by the vinum document. My vinum on my ide drives now seems to load
just fine. I will be doing some stress testing today.
So, the problem I reported seems to letting vinum load via rc.conf
and the /etc/rc.d/vinum script.
>
> On Monday, 5 January 2004 at 11:51:06 -0500, Stephen Corbesero wrote:
> >
> > I have been unable to use vinum in current since about 5.1. I have
> > just sent debugging information to Greg Lehey, but I was wondering
> > if it is working for anyone and how our configurations differ.
> >
> > If rc.conf specifies vinum_start="YES", my system usually crashes as
> > soon as vinum loads and starts scanning disks. Sometimes it doesn't
> > crash, but the vinum config is lost on at least one of the vinum
> > drives.
>
> Yes, I have your backtrace, and I've been trying to make sense of it.
> In the meantime I've had another one; together they give me the
> feeling that something has gone funny just recently. I don't
> understand from the backtrace how anything should have got trashed on
> disk, though; I suspect that the data really was still there, and a
> (the) bug gave the impression that it wasn't.
>
> This all worked perfectly on my test system a couple of days ago. I'm
> currently updating my test box to the absolute latest (unfortunately,
> that'll take a few hours), and I'll see if I can reproduce the problem
> here. If not, I'll take up your offer of access to the box.
>
> FWIW, the problem *appears* to be in the inline function
> __curthread(), called from init_drive. In the other dump, init_drive
> has been passed an invalid drive name pointer (which "can't happen"),
> and there's no reason to think that there's anything wrong in
> __curthread (only one instruction). My current guess is that gdb is
> lying about the location of the problem.
>
--
Stephen Corbesero
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA 18018
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