From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 2 05:08:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442351065672 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 05:08:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitar.vassilev@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C7E8FC08 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 2009 05:08:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitar.vassilev@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 2so1218887ywt.13 for ; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:08:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Mk5oD3YRgXZhEBmQ2TKFmOdGdivMBQCqT1SoJm95IeA=; b=dnSmdUsTFzFG7qgGD8BD0hiZ7vwJU6dMGddp4yImXwOsqwBV+gpr1Icd4XRnbGFOQa wpIW8S60pBB39ZVWDn53ZLqyseMizhr4Hep43rNbK9ZVB6yjmozrk5tqdBO8SahB1Yh+ anh/TYv1MrtO7VgB9R3S5+iNxxXtQYwNj0b10= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jlLzuLVEvG62WZ1dExHZGDDs8UTH/DHYT0AMMu4pag0NjC24Cs+xtyIq7LVk//0aDF Zf9AqLZo+ljhZJdolfSMfNFIAxjKQ3uNlIHHZJZ0mtkMu6SzU4x4+8FNCyAUscReBh2m bo78STk40+Lf5wR8sig5h70lKI2AKL+iB+pAA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.57.17 with SMTP id f17mr9629972yba.118.1235970496342; Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:08:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090301203840.130430myl3cd81wk@mail.schnarff.com> References: <20090301180006.19402mvtopuv9go4@mail.schnarff.com> <20090301202004.19264ty2m0sdne4g@mail.schnarff.com> <106485CFDFE44C7DBD441994EE990916@tamouh> <20090301203840.130430myl3cd81wk@mail.schnarff.com> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:08:16 +0200 Message-ID: <59adc1a0903012108o77fa8c9fl45b9977069b91799@mail.gmail.com> From: Dimitar Vasilev To: Alex Kirk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID Gone Wild - One Array Split Into Two X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:08:17 -0000 2009/3/2 Alex Kirk : > This is why I love open-source mailing lists - you never know what sort of > awesome you'll find! > > My question at this point, though, is how in the world I could actually > apply this patch, seeing as how the system is in a non-bootable state. Is > this something that's already been included in a development branch that I > could go download? Or do I need to do something else? > What I'd do is: make a distribution with the patch included in the source tree on another machine with your current KERNCONF, etc if you have backups of them. Then try reinstalling the machine and if backups are on your side all should be OK. I don't follow -current and -hackers much to advise if it has been fixed upstream. If you have another machine where you can check-out current tree and see if patch has been merged there - good. Regards, Dimitar