From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 27 23:24:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FBA837B405 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:24:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2S7Nme7065048; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:23:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please test GEOM in -current... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:34:29 PST." Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:23:48 +0100 Message-ID: <65047.1017300228@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , Matthew Jacob writ es: >> I belive that alpha BSD disklabels are now correctly handled in >> GEOM and would therefore appreciate if somebody could enable the >> GEOM option in a current kernel and tell me if I am right or not. >> >> Further more, if somebody could try to swap disks between an alpha >> and an i386 and tell me if the both recognize the "alien" disklabels >> when GEOM is enabled, that would be doubly nice. >> >> In fact, for ultimate h0h0 effect, you can try to stick a disk >> from a solaris machine into your alpha: it should recognize >> the partitioning on that as well. >> > >It's all quite verbose, so it's a bit hard to figure out what's what for >Alpha. Also, it *appeared* to blow up in my face on a system that had an IDE >drive as the root device- but I'm trying to ascertain whether that was really >the case right now. > >That system was also the one on the same fabric as Solaris labelled disks.... It doesn't look entirely wrong to me. I can see that there may be some issue with the cd0, it should probably be more graceful about not finding a disk there. You need to make sure that you have a post-cleanup newfs or GEOM+md+newfs will not play. I also fixed a buglet in the alpha-disklabel code yesterday, I can't tell if you have that fix or not in your kernel. Other than that it seems pretty ok to me. Sorry about the verboseness, it will be reduced. -- 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-alpha" in the body of the message