gvinum remains broken in 5.3-RELEASE?
Matthias Schuendehuette
msch at snafu.de
Sun Nov 7 02:24:39 PST 2004
Am Sonntag, 7. November 2004 04:07 schrieb Greg 'groggy' Lehey:
> On Saturday, 6 November 2004 at 20:40:44 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >> I can appreciate that the leadup to 5.3-RELEASE has been painful,
> >> but what's the purpose of a release which doesn't work? For a
> >> large number of Vinum users, 5.3 will be a release to avoid.
> >
> > Perhaps this deserves an errata entry?
>
> No, I was mistaken. See my subsequent apology.
To clarify the things out of my point of view:
gvinum on 5.3-RELEASE seems to work fine as a LVM (LogicalVolumeManager)
and for striping (RAID-0) and mirroring (RAID-1).
It does *not* work for *writing* on RAID5-volumes in UP
(SingleProcessor) environments due to a bug which was fixed too late
for 5.3-RELEASE.
I'm not aware of any statistics about the use of (g)vinum - but for
users of (g)vinum RAID5-Volumes in UP-environments 5.3-RELEASE *is*
problematic. Greg remains right here IMHO. RAID5 under 5.3-RELEASE (UP)
only works with 'classic' vinum if loaded *after* the system has come
up.
Perhaps this posting could be a template for the ERRATA entry... :-)
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