System freeze with gvinum

[Hilko Meyer]

Ulf Lilleengen schrieb:
>On søn, nov 30, 2008 at 09:18:24pm +0100, Hilko Meyer wrote:
>> Ulf Lilleengen schrieb:
>> >On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:47:59PM +0100, Hilko Meyer wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> I've tried to set up a raid-5 over three disks with gvinum today with this
>> >> gvinum.conf:
[...]
>> >> Every time I tried to run newfs on one of the volumes it stucked and the
>> >> complete system freezed, so I cannot provide a coredump. The system runs 
>> >> 6.4-RELEASE that was compiled today. What can I do to debug this problem?
>> >> 
>> >Hmm, do you have any console output before the freeze? Such as g_* messages?
>> 
>> Unfortunately nothing.
>> 
>> >This might be a gvinum bug, but can also be a problem with the sata driver.
>> 
>> How can I test the sata driver?  After writing the mail yesterday we
>> used dump|restore to copy several gigabytes to ad4s1a and no problems
>> occured in this test.
>Hmm, ok. Are you willing to try a patch to bring it up to 7.x gvinum? There
>are a few issues in 6.x that may be the cause of your problems.

Is gvinum in 7.1RC and 7.x the same? We considered to update to 7.1
before it's released anyway, because we need nfe(4).  And wanted to try
gvinum and zfs there.

But we can test a patch against 6.4 before the big update if you want.

bye,
Hilko
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