From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 9:10:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.199.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB6837B923 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 09:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W-rina.r-0.1-11.01.2000) with UUCP id BAA96202; Thu, 4 May 2000 01:10:21 +0900 (JST) Received: from silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (tanimura@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W) with ESMTP/IPv4 id BAA13589; Thu, 4 May 2000 01:08:16 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 01:08:16 +0900 Message-ID: <14608.20208.870.72159A@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> From: Seigo Tanimura To: Bob@WhiteBarn.Com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dump, Vinum, and the Demise of /dev/rvinum In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 07:28:04 -0500" <39101B54.AD14EF45@WhiteBarn.Com> References: <39101B54.AD14EF45@WhiteBarn.Com> Cc: Seigo Tanimura User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.0.3 (Notorious) SEMI/1.13.4 (Terai) FLIM/1.12.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Y=FEzaki?=) MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 9) (Canyonlands) (i386--freebsd) Organization: Carrots MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.4 - "Terai") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 03 May 2000 07:28:04 -0500, Bob Van Valzah said: Bob> With 4.0-RELEASE, vinum apparently no longer offers both block and Bob> character device interfaces. This seems to confuse dump (though mount Bob> and fsck are unfazed and newfs needs the -v option). Bob> Snivey# dump 0f /dev/null /faithful Bob> DUMP: Cannot open /dev/vinum/rfaithful Bob> Snivey# dump 0f /dev/null /dev/vinum/faithful Bob> DUMP: Cannot open /dev/vinum/rfaithful dump(8) tends to generate the name of a raw device by inserting an 'r' after the last '/' of the device name. We should get rid of this conversion soon. Bob> So how do you dump a vinum filesystem? You can create a link to the node of a vinum volume, named 'r(volume name)'. eg cd /dev/vinum ; ln faithful rfaithful -- Seigo Tanimura To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message