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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 1999 08:52:34 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vinum questions?
Message-ID:  <19990313085234.D429@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990312144140.011407@relay.skynet.be>; from Brad Knowles on Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 02:41:40PM %2B0100
References:  <19990312133024.005687@relay.skynet.be> <19990312144140.011407@relay.skynet.be>

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On Friday, 12 March 1999 at 14:41:40 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 1999, Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> wrote:
>
>>    Anyway, the one hurdle I'm trying to get over at the moment is that
>> vinum thinks that the devices /dev/da1c through /dev/da9c do not exist
>> (they do -- I created them with MAKEDEV), and therefore it refuses to
>> start the disks d1 through d9.  Without those disks, of course neither of
>> the two plexes start up, and of course the volume fails to start as well.
>
>     Well, my vinum configuration was confused enough that I blew it
> completely away, then made the mistake of trying to recreate it without
> rebooting first (against the warnings that I recall running across
> somewhere).  Nice little kernel panic there. 

Where?  Where's the dump?

>     All devices /dev/da1c through /dev/da9c exist (and so far as I know
> are valid), and I can pull disklabels off these devices (although I seem
> to be unable to write disklabels, so I can't add a partition other than
> "c" that I could use with vinum).

What's the problem?

>     Finally, while we're at it, I don't suppose anyone has any
> experience with running a softupdates filesystem on top of a vinum
> striped/concatenated volume, do you?  Am I dreaming in hoping that
> I'll be able to get these two working together?

I know somebody's doing it, but I don't recall who.  Maybe they'll
reply.

Greg
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