From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 8 16: 1:13 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 3F09237B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 16:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745EB43F93 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 16:01:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4C54751986; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:31:07 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:31:07 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Joerg Wunsch , Michael Reifenberger , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vinum start & -current doesn't work as expected Message-ID: <20030209000107.GL99377@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030207105857.T2514@nihil.reifenberger.com> <200302072056.h17KujgW073866@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20030207225249.O33219@nihil.reifenberger.com> <20030208000045.I63152@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20030207232145.GE67449@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030208214227.A1294@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="f54savKjS/tSNRaU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030208214227.A1294@uriah.heep.sax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 --f54savKjS/tSNRaU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 8 February 2003 at 21:42:27 +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> I guess it's time to dump the old vinum start code from >>> vinum(8) completely, and use the in-kernel scan now. >> >> This sounds like a good idea. > > Not after looking a bit closer. ;-) The only difference ist that the > userland "vinum start" uses devstat, while the in-kernel autoscan if > vinum.autostart is set uses sysctl kern.disks (devstat is not > available in the kernel). Yes it is. But there were (valid) objections to using in the kernel. By the time they came up, I was already using it in userland, and since nobody asked me to back it out, I didn't :-) > Both use the same backend function. So yes, the userland should > probably be changed to use the sysctl as well, Correct. > but that's certainly not the root of Michael's problems. Something > else must be the problem there. Yes, I'll look at that in a minute. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --f54savKjS/tSNRaU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+RZpDIubykFB6QiMRApLJAJ49u/rfJSvb5wENFOHYe2C1QNm8ZACePuGM E1BzEX6fmxiilAwQxr69g10= =KIOk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f54savKjS/tSNRaU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message