From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 1:14:37 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 E2C1B37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 01:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93E743E65 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 01:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7F8FNIK081319; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:15:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7F8FN7G081318; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:15:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:15:23 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using MD and VN disks Message-ID: <20020815081523.GA81272@ei.bzerk.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 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~ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message