From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 18:15:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8AA537B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.austclear.com.au (ns2.austclear.com.au [192.43.185.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F4D543E3B for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.166.65]) by ns2.austclear.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9I1FiX41287; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:15:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.166.65]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15933; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:15:44 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200210180115.LAA15933@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tom Parquette Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First time Vinum user. Setup problems In-Reply-To: Message from Tom Parquette of "Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:53:41 -0400." <3DAF5B95.9030905@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:15:44 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom, tparquet@twcny.rr.com said: > At boot, I get the following: > vinum: loaded > vinum: /dev is mounted read-only not rebuilding /dev/vinum > Can't open /dev/vinum/Control read only file system I haven't looked at this on 4.7, but on the releases I'm working on (4.2 and 4.3--don't ask), most of this is normal. At initial boot, / is mounted read-only. Vinum is started before / is remounted read/write, so vinum is unable to make updates in /dev. However this is basically harmless as all the /dev entries should be present from when you last made vinum changes, and shouldn't need to be changed. /dev/vinum/Control won't appear in /dev until you create a configuration. So until you do that, you may want to consider NOT starting vinum at boot time, though the messages you're getting are harmless. > Are IDE drives supported by Vinum? Yes. That's what I'm using quite happily. Tony -- Tony Landells Principal Networks, Security & IT Systems Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message