On Monday, 27 September 1999 at 15:37:30 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> At 01:05 PM 9/27/99 -0400, Brad Chisholm wrote:
>> Well, I believe I discovered the source of my problem. It turns out that
>> I did not have the correct devices configured in /dev for the component
>> drives. I had da[0-3]e, but not da[0-3]s1e. The documentation seemed to
>> indicate that the da?s1? devices were not required, but once I made them,
>> the crashes stopped.
>
> Unless it's changed (again) you only need "/dev/da[0-3]" with no slice or
> partition.
It has changed (again).
> Not to surprising that it paniced with what appeared to be a
> "dedicated" disk (ie da0e).
It's surprising. Good software shouldn't panic. But this input is
valuable, because now I know where to look.
>> It's interesting that I could bring the array up using the 'start'
>> command from the vinum interactive prompt, and things would work
>> properly with the missing devices, while issuing a direct 'vinum
>> start' would cause a panic.
>
> Expected behaviour. From vinum.8:
>
> If no object names are specified, vinum scans the disks known to
> the system for vinum drives and then reads in the configuration
> as described under the read commands. The vinum drive contains a
> header with all information about the data stored on the drive,
> including the names of the other drives which are required in
> order to represent plexes and volumes.
>
> Similarly you could list only one drive for the read command in rc.conf and
> it should bring up all drives. Emphasis on the "could" and "should" here.
I think you're misinterpreting what Brad was saying. He was issuing
the same command, once during boot and once later. I've had a number
of reports of this problem, but this is the first one that helps me
find the bug.
>> Thanks for providing such a useful piece of software!
>
> Most certainly is. Could use the functionality to add to a plex's size for
> striped or RAID5, but a bit of planning cures that. 8-)
It's all in the pipeline. But first we need Vinum on the root file
system.
Greg
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