gvinum raid5 in production

[Mark Bucciarelli]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:37:33PM +0200, Ulf Lilleengen wrote:
> Quoting Mark Bucciarelli <mark at gaiahost.coop>:
> 
> > Is anybody using gvinum raid5 in production with 6.1-release?  How is
> > it
> > going?
> >
> 
> I run gvinum raid5 in 6.1 Release on a light production server, and I've
> not encountered any problems so far, but it _should_ work :)
> 
> About the PR's you found I'm not sure of what's a gvinum bug or not of
> them, but at the thing about not checking NULL pointers for g_malloc is
> because when passing the M_WAITOK flag to g_malloc (or kernel malloc
> for instance), it is guaranteed to not return NULL because the flag
> tells malloc to wait for resources to be freed.

Guaranteed to either return non-NULL or produce a KASSERT
failure.  From the backtrace it look like the latter happened to
bug reporter.

So not a geom bug.

RW's fxr is handy.  :)

m