From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Apr 1 19:49:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [216.224.193.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1606937B718 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:49:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@honeypot.net) Received: from pooh.honeypot (mail@pooh.honeypot [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f322nNN04390 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:49:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@honeypot.net) Received: from kirk by pooh.honeypot with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14juPC-0000HQ-00 for ; Sun, 01 Apr 2001 21:49:22 -0500 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Vinum heart attack References: <87vgooi7kz.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <20010402082816.J77617@wantadilla.lemis.com> <87g0fsi1i2.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <20010402102211.B25226@wantadilla.lemis.com> <871yrcnijq.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <20010402120212.D25226@wantadilla.lemis.com> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 01 Apr 2001 21:49:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20010402120212.D25226@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <87r8zcm2x9.fsf@pooh.honeypot> Lines: 35 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 2001-04-02T02:32:13Z, Greg Lehey writes: > > Can't create /dev/vinum/: File exists > > Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/: File exists > This looks very old. Which version of vinum(8) is this? I don't have access to the exact date of the build, but it was circa 2001-02-11. > Ah. Yes, you can't do that. You *must* have your kernel and userland in > sync. Fair enough, but that was my original problem: following the update instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING could have left me with a broken system. Nowhere have I read anything warning users to keep them in rigid lockstep. I mean, it's understood that you don't want your kernel and userland to be too far out of sync, but I wasn't aware that it was that critical. For example, here's an entry from UPDATING: 20010109: ipfw interface changed. Make sure that the userland and kernel match or you won't have the firewall rules you think you do. The instant I read that, I knew to watch out for the two parts. I had no idea that Vinum also had such conditions. Two quick side questions: How do you pronounce `Vinum'? Did you ever get to look at my Vinum-on-IDE post from a month ago? -- Kirk Strauser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message