From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 4 17:14:28 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 38CCB37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:14:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA3D43E4A for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:14:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 92E6B812E3; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 09:44:22 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 09:44:22 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Peter Wemm Cc: Terry Lambert , Emiel Kollof , Poul-Henning Kamp , n0go013 , current Subject: Re: [ GEOM tests ] disklabel warnings and vinum drives lost Message-ID: <20021005001422.GP72541@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3D9E0DD8.1C9526DE@mindspring.com> <20021004230324.4DA262A896@canning.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021004230324.4DA262A896@canning.wemm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Friday, 4 October 2002 at 16:03:24 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: >> Emiel Kollof wrote: >>> * Peter Wemm (peter@wemm.org) wrote: >>>> vinum is so much unbelievable stuff in it. Consider this stuff: >>>> >>>> sys/dev/vinum/vinumio.c: >> >> [ ... ] >> >>>> This crud has *got* to be taken out and shot, then reworked to do it >>>> properly. >>> >>> Amen! (and no, I'm not volunteering. I don't mind cleaning up code, but the > re >>> are limits to what crud I touch) >> >> >> FWIW: >> >> The comment right before that code is: >> >> /* >> * Yes, Bruce, I know this is horrible, but we >> * don't have a root file system when we first >> * try to do this. If you can come up with a >> * better solution, I'd really like it. I'm >> * just putting it in now to add ammuntion to >> * moving the system to devfs. >> */ >> >> ...basically, when devfs became default, the person who made it >> default did not maintain this code, when they converted everything >> else over to using it. >> >> The assumption here is that the devfs will be available to the >> system before the root is mounted transparently over it. > > Actually no, this is only used *after* root is mounted. Now. Vinum supported the root file system years ago, but there were objections to the code. This was a temporary hack which was supposed to go away quickly, but then there was some pressure for me to give up maintainership, so I did, and Vinum has had very little maintenance since. >> Another alternative is to disable support for mounting vinum plexes >> as the root filesystem, which is what this code supposedly >> supports. > > Nope. Vinum doesn't support booting with a plex as a root file > system. I can't quite say that I understand what this is for though. > namei() etc are perfectly usable at this point. It did. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message