From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 16:34:27 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 331E4106564A for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:34:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from l.pizzamiglio@bally-wulff.de) Received: from mail2.bally-wulff-berlin.de (mail2.bally-wulff-berlin.de [212.144.118.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF1D8FC17 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:34:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bwex.bally-wulff.de (unknown [192.9.204.106]) by mail2.bally-wulff-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B1A99075; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:34:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.9.205.177] ([192.9.205.177]) by bwex.bally-wulff.de with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:34:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4D4C2A92.1000104@bally-wulff.de> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:34:26 +0100 From: Luca Pizzamiglio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101213 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com References: <4D4BE50A.7000705@bally-wulff.de> <20110204141254.1dd98de8@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20110204141254.1dd98de8@ernst.jennejohn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Feb 2011 16:34:25.0656 (UTC) FILETIME=[62C0D780:01CBC489] Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building kernel including GEOM_VINUM X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:34:27 -0000 Hi Gray, On 02/04/2011 14:12, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:37:46 +0100 > Luca Pizzamiglio wrote: > >> I'm Luca and I use FreeBSD for more than one year. And I'm happy for >> that! I'm using 7.3 and 8.1. >> I started to use gvinum+geli and everything is fine. >> But I've a little problem: for a specific update procedure, I need to >> build a kernel which includes Vinum, without module. >> > > And why do you need it in the kernel? If you load it from /boot/loader.conf > it will be running when the machine enters user mode. Or don't you want to > have any modules? > This is an update procedure that starts with a kernel and mount an image file as filesystem. Now they are not strictly dependent, because the kernel is updated more often. Using modules, I've should update also the image file putting in the updated gvinum_module. It's not a bit deal, but I've read on the handbook that it was possible. >> I read on FreeBSD >> handbook that is possible (but not raccomended), but I don't find how... >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-config.html >> >> I missed something or GEOM_VINUM is available just as a module? >> > > It would probably require some major hacking. Apparently gvinum was > designed with using it only as a KLD in mind. > Is that meanings that there's an error on handbook? How I (or we) could improve it? Best regards, Luca Pizzamiglio