From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 05:04:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4352016A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 05:04:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142AF43D45 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 05:04:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (qmail 6557 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2004 05:04:07 -0000 Received: from gate.funkthat.com (HELO hydrogen.funkthat.com) ([69.17.45.168]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Oct 2004 05:04:07 -0000 Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (ohwnsp@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1])i97546lb063677; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 22:04:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i97545wT063676; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 22:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 22:04:05 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Sam Message-ID: <20041007050405.GP22681@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Sam , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk/geom, AoE 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 05:04:08 -0000 Sam wrote this message on Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 23:34 -0500: > I've got the AoE driver ported and running on > 5.2.1. Much faster than I anticipated; the geom > interface is delightful. > > I can read and write to the disk. I cannot, > however, partition it and I'm soliciting the > list for ideas as to why. > > If I fdisk -u an AoE device, fdisk claims all > was successful, but in reality nothing gets written. > Further calls to fdisk support this. > > I'm probably not tickling something right. Is it > possible I need to grease the path for the disk > partition table in geom? I didn't see anything of > the like. Maybe it's a tasting issue? On last close (from fdisk hopefully), the provider will be passed back for tasting since the meta data could possibly have changed.. Have you verified that the writes are hitting the disk? and that the fdisk table can be seen from another machine? Verified that you can read what you write to the disk? /me notes that these questions should probably end up on -geom and so cc'd it. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."