gvinum or vinum in 5.3-STABLE

[Aristedes Maniatis]

Sorry to butt in on your thread, but it seems relevant. I am having 
problems with gvinum under 5-STABLE and a RAID 0 array of two disks. 
The array works perfectly until reboot. Then, when the machine comes 
back up the plexes are marked as stale. Issuing these commands fixes 
the problem until the next reboot:

gvinum setstate up storage.p0.s0
gvinum setstate up storage.p0.s1

Things I've tried:

* Googling for answers
* commenting out the fstab entry at boot and then manually mounting the 
partition after boot
* inserting gvinum in /boot/loader.conf
* copying the vinum script in /etc/rc.d/vinum and making a gvinum 
equivalent
* trying to shutdown gvinum at shutdown time (but "gvinum stop" doesn't 
work)
* fsck
* rebuilding gvinum array

Is there some shutdown procedure that should gracefully shutdown the 
RAID? There is a process which opens files on the RAID and runs 
continuously until shutdown. Could it be holding the RAID open too long 
and could this staleness?

 From what I can tell the staleness doesn't affect any data - everything 
is OK once brought up.

Cheers
Ari Maniatis



On 14/02/2005, at 11:38 AM, Tristan wrote:

> Is gvinum
> ready for production use in a RAID5 config ?



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