From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 8 6: 7:56 2003 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 6D9CA37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 06:07:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (angelica.unixdaemons.com [209.148.64.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BC843F93 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 06:07:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (hiten@localhost.unixdaemons.com [127.0.0.1]) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.7/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h18E7mOm060798; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 09:07:48 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hiten@localhost) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.7/8.12.1/Submit) id h18E7mRm060797; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 09:07:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hiten) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 09:07:48 -0500 From: Hiten Pandya To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GEOM and Extended Slices Message-ID: <20030208140748.GA60701@unixdaemons.com> References: <3E450E49.4030906@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E450E49.4030906@hotmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD i386 X-Public-Key: http://www.pittgoth.com/~hiten/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten X-PGP: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Hiten+Pandya&op=index 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 Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 06:03:53AM -0800, walt wrote the words in effect of: > Hiten Pandya wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:49:54PM -0800, walt wrote the words in effect > >of: > > > >>Hiten Pandya wrote: > >> > >>>Hi gang. > >>> > >>>Recently removing the NO_GEOM option from my kernel; I noticed that my > >>>dos extended slices dev entries disappeared under a GEOM kernel... > >> > >>I've been using extended slices on both -stable and -current for > >>quite a while without any problems, both with and without GEOM. > >> > >>How were the extended slices created? > > > > > >The extended slices were created before FreeBSD 4.3 was installed on my > >machine. After that, I just kept building world and kernel and upgraded > >to 5.0. It used to work before GEOM, but then it suddenly stopped. > > I just noticed that there are a bunch of GEOM options in > /usr/src/sys/conf/GENERIC that I was not using in my custom > kernel. I just added several of them that seem at least vaguely > appropriate to my machine (I don't know what any of them actually > are for, however). Extended slices are still working okay with > the new options added. Are you using any of them in your kernel? Nop, no additional GEOM related options. -- Hiten Pandya (hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org) http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message