From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 4 9:27:39 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 72F5137B4D6 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:27:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CF243E3B for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:27:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g94GRUpS035390; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:27:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: n0go013 Cc: current Subject: Re: [ GEOM tests ] disklabel warnings and vinum drives lost In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Oct 2002 17:11:19 BST." <20021004161119.GA10830@pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 18:27:30 +0200 Message-ID: <35389.1033748850@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 In message <20021004161119.GA10830@pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk>, n0go013 writes : >On 04.10-15:40, fergus wrote: >> 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 ? >[...] >> i'll let you know the test results when i have some. > >same results -- can't initialise any drives. i think the example below >points more directly to the issue but i'm pretty sure it is because the >direct read from the disk does not return a valid disklabel. without a >'vinum' partition entry vinum spews. I have no idea how vinum does this or something else, but clearly something is not done the right way in vinum... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message