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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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