Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:57:46 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Lukas Ertl <le@freebsd.org> Cc: Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, scottl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mpt + gvinum on 6.0-BETA1 Message-ID: <42F4FA1A.2050107@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050806122309.O731@korben.prv.univie.ac.at> References: <04D55966-A390-45AE-A7B8-0828A9655053@snafu.de> <B7980F8A-52E8-43F2-B5D6-582FB5521A91@snafu.de> <20050806122309.O731@korben.prv.univie.ac.at>
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Lukas Ertl wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:
>
>> Further, gvinum is not working with this disk subsystem. If I try to
>> create a gvinum-drive, the drive seems to be created ('gvinum list'
>> reports the drive), but it has the state 'down' and cannot be
>> started. After a reboot, there's no gvinum-drive at all any more. If
>> I look at the first sectors of the partition which should contain the
>> gvinum drive, there's absolutely nothing written to disk, even after
>> a 'gvinum saveconfig'. All zeroes, no "In VINO" gvinum magic, no
>> drive size, simply nothing - strange!
>
>
> The mpt device is apparently not GEOM-aware.
How exactly does one make a device GEOM-aware?
Scott
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