vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

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Fri May 27 18:16:05 PDT 2005


On 27 mei 2005, at 16:38, web at 3dresearch.com wrote:

>
>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> not very encouraging... Is it a RAID 5 you were able to make work
>>> under 5.4?
>>>
>>> jd
>>>
>>>
>> hey
>> yeah a 3x160 GB RAID5 and 2x80 GB RAID 1 in FreeBSD 5.4-p1
>>  i get the same error message everytime i start vinum or whenever i
>> execute a command in vinum
>> and really loads of kernel panics whenever i try to get it to work
>> after a crash
>> i have an unorthodox way of recovering from this because it's nearly
>> impossible to do stuff in vinum without causing kernel panics
>> yesterday evrything was ruined again (after upgrading to p1)
>> i wiped the complete config (rest config - NO FUTURE)
>> read in the config file (create RAID5)
>> set every state up manually (setstate up ...)
>> and rebuild parity
>> took about 10 hours to rebuild but then everything is back up and
>> running
>>
>> i tried Gvinum too but that doesn't have the setstate nor the ruibld
>> parity command and still you can't stop gvinum (gvinum stop doesn't
>> work, nor does kldunload geom_vinum.ko)
>>
>> i have no way of changing to a different soft raid due to lack of
>> space to backup so i'm stuck with this for as lo0ng as it takes :)
>>
>> so, one advice "don't do it"
>> hehehe
>> Arno
>>
>
> Many thanx... I guess I better stick with 4.11
>
> jd
>
>
you're welcome

maybe the complete vinum chapter should be removed from the handbook?

Arno



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