From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 4 7:42:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3E237B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 07:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blahdeblah.demon.co.uk (blahdeblah.demon.co.uk [62.49.19.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F1A943E75 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 07:42:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fergus@blahdeblah.demon.co.uk) Received: from pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blahdeblah.demon.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g94EeNDi010438; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:40:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from fergus@pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk) Received: (from fergus@localhost) by pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g94EeHil010437; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:40:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:40:17 +0100 From: fergus To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current Subject: Re: [ GEOM tests ] disklabel warnings and vinum drives lost Message-ID: <20021004144017.GB10181@pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: fergus , Poul-Henning Kamp , current References: <20021004121036.GB8515@pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk> <13669.1033734055@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <13669.1033734055@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04.10-14:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > I suspect vinum uses this sysctl to get an inventory of disks in > the system, so can I get you to try again making sure you have > rev. 1.20 of src/sys/geom/geom_disk.c ? still in the middle of the build but i don't think so -- it looks like vinum is using BIO_READ with a fixed offset VINUM_LABEL_OFFSET to retrieve a raw copy of the disklabel to parse. i don't have any references but from what you've mentioned in commits over the last week that's not really going to work. if there are any geom design outlines i can read (in a digest or news) then i may be able to put together a patch. i'll let you know the test results when i have some. -- t t z To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message