Re: SMP vs. RAIDframe?

[Holger Weiss <lists%jhweiss.de@localhost>]

* Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost> [2008-09-28 00:19]:
> On Sep 27, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Holger Weiss wrote:
>> However, all filesystems (FFS with neither softdep nor WAPBL) are on a
>> RAIDframe mirror, and for some reason, booting GENERIC.MP leads to a
>> dirty parity.  During the parity rewrite, the system will freeze within a
>> few minutes; that is, I cannot BREAK into DDB.  If I mark one of the
>> RAIDframe components as failed using raidctl(8), the system seems to run
>> happily until I generate more or less heavy disk I/O.
>>
>> So, I'm not sure whether this is RAIDframe related, and I wasn't really
>> able to gather useful information yet, but I'd be interested if running
>> RAIDframe mirros on SMP kernels works for others [or] if such problems
>> are expected.
>
> My U60 ( 2x 450MHz ) works just fine with most things on a RAIDframe
> stripeset ( kernel and loader had to be outside the RAID in order to get
> anything booted ).

So it doesn't seem to be a general "RAIDframe + SMP on sparc64" issue.
Thanks.

> Occasionally I get complaints about dirty parity on startup but that
> doesn't have any negative side effects ( and it's meaningless on a
> stripeset anyway )

But you didn't get them without SMP?

Holger