Subject: Re: kern/32257: vinum crashes on writing larger files
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
From: Lasse Kliemann <lasse-list-netbsd-bugs-2005@plastictree.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/14/2005 00:16:10
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* Jaromir Dolecek writes:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:36:46PM +0100, Lasse Kliemann wrote:
> > As I have learned, RC6 has been tagged. In the list of changes,=20
> > nothing about vinum was said. I therefor assume that this issue is=20
> > unsolved also in RC6.  Shouldn't we then document vinum support as=20
> > broken in the upcoming 3.0 release? Fact is that usage of vinum (at=20
> > least over USB) leads to a _system_ _crash_ even in the most simple=20
> > setup possible. I tested this on two different machines.
>=20
> vinum is known broken. Use RaidFrame, which works fine :)

It was not known to me that vinum was known broken, nor, for that matter, t=
hat=20
it was broken :-). If this will be documented in the manual page and the ke=
rnel=20
config, others will not fall into the same pit as I did.

Actually, I currently do not need anything like vinum or RaidFrame. I came=
=20
across this rather accidentally and was worried about the quality of the=20
upcoming release.


Regards,
Lasse

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