From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 29 22:59:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06866 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:59:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.gamespot.com (ns2.gamespot.com [206.169.18.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06860 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:59:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian@gamespot.com) Received: from localhost (ian@localhost) by mail.gamespot.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA22302; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:58:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Kallen To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ccd configuration In-Reply-To: <19980630110259.A1880@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Looks interesting. I think I recall hearing that the Veritas technology is what hpux and irix use for their dynamic filesystems, that'd be awesome to have something like it rolled into FreeBSD. Once I get things square with my server deployments, I'll try giving vinum a go. Meantime, I'll get these servers going with ccd the constituent filesystems newfs'd prior to ccd'ing them :) Thanks, -Ian On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: :> :> Great. That works. I'm just curious why I needed to newfs the disks :> :> individually prior to ccd'ing them? Or did I? :> :No. :> :> Hmm I did because the example in the ccdconfig man page was not using :> the raw devices, when I try running it on a raw device ccdconfig complains :> that it wants a blockdevice and if it's not newfs'd, it complains like :> ccdconfig: ioctl (CCDIOCSET): /dev/ccd1c: Invalid argument : :Hmm. Interesting. This shouldn't be necessary, and I can't remember :having done this when I tried it, but I don't have time to try it out :again. : :Have you looked at vinum? http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html -- Bart: Gee Homer, it looks like you've got yourself a real problem on your hands. Homer: Your right... Uhh... Bart! Vacuum this floor! Bart: Hey Man! I didn't do anything wrong! Homer: In times of trouble you've got to go with what you know. Now hop to it boy! -- ``Moaning Lisa'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message