Vinum: after kernel panic, incorrect avail shown on drives (long)

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 6 20:06:10 PDT 2003


On Tuesday,  6 May 2003 at 11:43:14 -0600, Tillman wrote:
> (Warning: long and verbose message. I'm following the directions on
> http://www.vinumvm.org/, so there's lots of details here).
>
>
> Quick problem summary
> =====================
>
> `vinum ld` reports 5120M of available free space on a drive that is
> actually full.
>
> This occurred after I made two sets of mistakes while trying to expand a
> volume (something I still find complex, apparantly). The details of the
> mistakes are given as paragraph above the 'vinum history' below.
>
> Vinum appears to be working correctly, and all filesystems pass a fsck
> check (required, as the computer went down dirty). I'm worried about the
> inconsistency, though, as it doesn't bode well for the future.
>
>
> Version info
> ============
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE (Tue Apr 29 10:26:03 CST 2003), with no
> changes to kernel or vinum sources.

Yes, I've found and fixed a bug in this area.  I'll MFC it to the
4-STABLE branch in a few days.

Greg
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