Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:15:23 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <fbsd-q@bzerk.org> To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using MD and VN disks Message-ID: <20020815081523.GA81272@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <F63C9358-B001-11D6-8CE0-003065BAAC62@well.com> References: <F63C9358-B001-11D6-8CE0-003065BAAC62@well.com>
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:49:12PM -0400, James Howard typed:
> 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
I think you mean vnconfig -u ?
-e Configure the device and enables any feature that was specified.
If no feature was specified, -e is the same as -c.
-u Disable and ``unconfigure'' the device.
> 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~
>
>
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