From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 20:49:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AD537B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 20:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from astro.phpwebhosting.com (astro.phpwebhosting.com [66.33.60.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C080143E6E for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 20:49:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@well.com) Received: (qmail 15922 invoked by uid 508); 15 Aug 2002 03:49:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wopr) (208.59.106.89) by astro.phpwebhosting.com with SMTP; 15 Aug 2002 03:49:02 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 23:49:12 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Using MD and VN disks From: James Howard To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am still here building Linux file-systems on FreeBSD. I solved my previous problems by making Linux images on Linux then just manipulating images under FreeBSD. Not very sexy, but it is effective. Now, I have run into some interesting problems. First, I cannot get MD-bases disks to work for more than one disk. I have allocated 24M in the kernel (the combined size I am using is 14M). So I am not sure what is happening there. Some insight would be appreciated. So instead, I have been using VN disks (this is an example how cool FreeBSD is, I couldn't make MD disks work, but something else did!). It appears after using vnconfig -e to unattach a disk, it doesn't really unattach. In order to reuse a vn device, I have to unload the vn KLD. This is not a problem for me, since only one person will be building at a time, but I am worried about loading and unloading and other things like that causing a stability problem. Are my fears well-founded? Is there a Right Way to do this? Thank you, J~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message