Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:00:42 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum swap and 5.2-RC Message-ID: <20031211003042.GB81968@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20031210195205.GA54769@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <20031210195205.GA54769@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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--z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 10 December 2003 at 14:52:05 -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > I'm currently running 5.1-RELEASE-p11 and am planning on upgrading to > 5.2-RELEASE when it is released. I thought I'd get a jump on things, > as well as help out testing the current 5.2-RC, so I cvsupped > RELENG_5_2 and did a make buildworld and make buildkernel. > > When I rebooted in single-user after doing make installkernel, I went > to do the usual preparations to do a "make installworld" but found > that the 5.2-RC kernel would not let me swap on my Vinum swap > partition. When I do "swapon -a" (for my md swap-backed /tmp), I get: > > /dev/vinum/swap: Operation not supported by device > > I searched the mailing lists and found a thread from late this > September saying swapping to Vinum devices no longer works in > -CURRENT. So, I guess I need to revert back to swapping to the actual > devices, and losing a little RAID 1 functionality there. (I have the > system set up as two mirrored drives, including root, as per the > chapter from _The Complete FreeBSD_ that Greg Lehey makes available on > his WWW site.) > > I still have the original install partitions from before going > "all-Vinum" on the system. So, I can change my /etc/fstab to use > /dev/ad0s1b (and /dev/ad1s1b) as swap devices. My question is this: > do I need to delete my "swap" volume from my Vinum configuration, so > as not to confuse Vinum re: possible inconsistencies? No. If you don't do anything with it, there can't be any inconsistencies. I'll look at the cause of the problems. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/17qyIubykFB6QiMRAhmRAKCABdyItZSvrN7KGOGOa1Wis8bIIwCfQb7i fyXPGDdgNxDJSvI7zUcsP3g= =kxhf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8--
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