freebsd 5.3 have any problem with vinum ?

[Joe Koberg]

secmgr wrote:


>No, I mean self corrupting raid5 sets during initialization.  Discussed
>about 2-3 weeks ago.
>  
>
In the following message you seemed to claim that adding 64 sectors of 
slack to the
beginning of the vinum partition fixed this problem, as I suggested. Did 
that fix it or not?


> The reason is empirically derived.  When I created a 7 disk raid 5 set 
> using "len 0" or all the space available, the raid set would be 
> corrupt after initializing.  Every time.  When I reserved back  that 
> extra space, no corruption.
> (freebsd 4.10-p3)  There was a thread on this a few days ago.
>
> jim 



Joe Koberg
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