FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

[Matthias Schuendehuette]

Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather:
>
> The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA
> "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" woe that bedevils some of us under 5.3.  When
> that happens, your mirror will be knocked into a degraded state (half
> of your mirrored plexes will be marked down) even though the drive is
> okay. Unfortunately, without "setstate" being implemented in "gvinum"
> to mark the drive as up, thereby allowing you to issue "gvinum
> start"s for the "downed" plexes, there's little more you can do to
> get the "failed" drive recognised as being in the "up" state other
> than to reboot. [...]

'gvinum setstate' was MFCed from -current together with 'gvinum 
checkpatity' and 'gvinum rebuildparity' a week ago or so...

So that should make it easier to handle these ATA-Problems...

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Ciao/BSD - Matthias

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