From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 11 21:20:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B2F37B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:20:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8184D6AC94; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:50:17 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:50:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Jacob Subject: Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS? Message-ID: <20010312155017.R11986@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010311115147.L57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010311112923.A41738@bank-pedersen.dk> <20010311032701.G18351@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010312091758.R57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010311203903.M18351@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010311203903.M18351@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 08:39:03PM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 20:39:03 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Greg Lehey [010311 15:21] wrote: >> On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 3:27:02 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> >>> Vinum+DEVFS doesn't make the million symlinks that non-devfs >>> vinum does. >> >> The only symlinks that the non-devfs version makes are to the drives. >> Everything else is device nodes. But yes, it doesn't make as many >> device nodes, and that is a Good Thing. >> >>> Try using /dev/vinum/vol/raid01 instead of /dev/vinum/raid01 >>> >>> (notice you need the '/vol/' path component) >> >> I missed that. This is not correct. The directory /dev/vinum/vol >> should go away. > > Er, too late. :) > > On a devfs system here's what you'll see: > >>> ls -lR /dev/vinum/ > total 0 > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000001 Feb 22 21:26 Control > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000002 Feb 22 21:26 control > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000000 Feb 22 21:26 controld > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 plex > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 sd > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 vol > > /dev/vinum/plex: > total 0 > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 1 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0 > > /dev/vinum/sd: > total 0 > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 2 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0.s0 > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x10000002 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0.s1 > > /dev/vinum/vol: > total 0 > crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0 > > > I'd like to keep it this way, it just makes sense. No, that's a gratuitous change. All the docco talks about keeping the volumes in the main directory. That's why people are having trouble. Yes, it looks more uniform, but the objects aren't uniform. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message