writing to gvinum volume causes system freeze

[Andrew Heyn]

I am using freebsd 5.3 with freesbie.  The machine is a dual processor
but the kernel is non SMP.
-Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Lukas Ertl [mailto:le at FreeBSD.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 3:19 AM
To: Andrew Heyn
Cc: freebsd-geom at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: writing to gvinum volume causes system freeze

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Andrew Heyn wrote:

> I have three 33GB scsi drives.
> My problem is that whenever I try to 'start home' or another one of 
> the volumes, and once it is up if I try to newfs it (home for 
> example), the following happens:
>
> newfs /dev/gvinum/home
> /dev/gvinum/home: 4794.8MB (9819684 sectors) block size 16384, 
> fragment size 204
> 8
>        using 27 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
> 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, 
> 3010976, 3387328, 3763680, 4140032, <system hang>

Are you having an SMP or a UP system?  Are you running -STABLE or
-CURRENT?

thanks,
le

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