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Date:      Mon, 3 May 1999 17:00:54 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getting vinum working in -stable
Message-ID:  <19990503170054.Z10134@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905030709.AAA00499@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don Lewis on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 12:09:05AM -0700
References:  <199905030709.AAA00499@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>

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On Monday,  3 May 1999 at  0:09:05 -0700, Don Lewis wrote:
>
> I just upgraded one of our servers to a 4/30/1999 version of 3.1-stable
> in order to use vinum and ran into a minor problem.
>
> It appears that the preferred way to start vinum at boot time is to
> "vinum start", but this is now how /etc/rc works.  If the vinum_drives
> variable is set in /etc/rc.conf, then /etc/rc executes
> "vinum read $vinum_drives".
>
> The problem is that no matter what I set vinum_drives to, vinum wouldn't
> initialize correctly.
>
>     # vinum read /dev/da2e /dev/da2f /dev/da3e /dev/da3f
>     ** no drives found: No such file or directory
>
> If I execute "vinum start", everything works just fine.
>
>     May  1 08:27:51 news /kernel: vinum: loaded
>     May  1 08:27:52 news /kernel: vinum: reading configuration from /dev/da3f
>     May  1 08:27:52 news /kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da3e
>     May  1 08:27:52 news /kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da2e
>     May  1 08:27:52 news /kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da2f
>
> I ended up tweaking /etc/rc to just execute "vinum start".

Thanks for reminding me.  I've been meaning to commit changes to
/etc/rc for some time now.  I'll do it immediately.

Greg
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