gvinum or vinum in 5.3-STABLE

[Joe Koberg]

Aristedes Maniatis wrote:

> Sorry to butt in on your thread, but it seems relevant. I am having 
> problems with gvinum under 5-STABLE and a RAID 0 array of two disks. 
> The array works perfectly until reboot. Then, when the machine comes 
> back up the plexes are marked as stale. Issuing these commands fixes 
> the problem until the next reboot:
>
Once the plexes are UP, issue a 'gvinum saveconfig'. Then try rebooting 
and see what happens.
 This has worked for me before with 5.3-R, and today with a recent 
5.3-STABLE.


Joe Koberg
joe at osoft.us






> gvinum setstate up storage.p0.s0
> gvinum setstate up storage.p0.s1
>
> Things I've tried:
>
> * Googling for answers
> * commenting out the fstab entry at boot and then manually mounting 
> the partition after boot
> * inserting gvinum in /boot/loader.conf
> * copying the vinum script in /etc/rc.d/vinum and making a gvinum 
> equivalent
> * trying to shutdown gvinum at shutdown time (but "gvinum stop" 
> doesn't work)
> * fsck
> * rebuilding gvinum array
>
> Is there some shutdown procedure that should gracefully shutdown the 
> RAID? There is a process which opens files on the RAID and runs 
> continuously until shutdown. Could it be holding the RAID open too 
> long and could this staleness?
>
> From what I can tell the staleness doesn't affect any data - 
> everything is OK once brought up.
>
> Cheers
> Ari Maniatis
>
>
>
> On 14/02/2005, at 11:38 AM, Tristan wrote:
>
>> Is gvinum
>> ready for production use in a RAID5 config ?
>
>
>
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