From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 11:43:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517A237B964 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com ([216.88.157.130]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12961; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 06:13:17 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA03077; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:42:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:42:58 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Jon Rust Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum: no raw device? Message-ID: <20000320114257.C2898@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jpr@vcnet.com on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:36:53AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 20 March 2000 at 10:36:53 -0800, Jon Rust wrote: > I just finished rebuilding a machine with 4.0-STABLE. When I was > done, I ran my vinum config to create a RAID-10 volume. Everything > went fine (newfs, mount, actual use). Whoa! I don't have a "rraid10" > in /dev/vinum. Where'd the raw device go? It's called /dev/vinum/raid10: > newweb:~{11} $ ls -l /dev/vinum > crw-r----- 1 root wheel 91, 0 Mar 20 10:19 raid10 > > I went back into vinum and issued a makedev command, but that didn't > bring it back. Here's my steps: create vinum_config_file; start > raid10.p1 (to get the second plex out of the inital "faulty" state); > newfs -v /dev/vinum/raid10; doh! no raw device, back into vinum and > "makedev"; still no raw device. One of the big changes in FreeBSD 4.0 is that there are no *block* devices any more; instead, the devices which were previously block devices are now character (raw) devices. Unfortunately, I forgot to update the man page before the release, but it'll be done Real Soon Now. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message