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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:00:24 -0800
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't dump vinum volumes after upgrading
Message-ID:  <20000321110023.E1731@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <38D77DC7.7F161FCB@partitur.se>; from girgen@partitur.se on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 02:48:55PM %2B0100
References:  <38D77DC7.7F161FCB@partitur.se>

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On Tuesday, 21 March 2000 at 14:48:55 +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm having a strange problem after upgrading: There are no raw
> devices created for vinum volumes.

Indeed there are.  You list them below.  There are no longer any block
devices.

> This makes dump(8) puke.
>
> This is a 3.4 system:
>
> ls -laF /dev/vinum
> ...
> crwxr-xr--  1 root  wheel   91,   1  2 Jul  1999 rusr*
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512  2 Jul  1999 rvol/
> ...
> brwxr-xr--  1 root  wheel   25,   1  2 Jul  1999 usr*

This was a block device.

> drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel       512  2 Jul  1999 vol/
> ...
>
> and here's a 4.0:
>
> crw-r-----   1 root  wheel   91,   0 21 Mar 13:40 usr

This is now a character device.

> drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel       512 21 Mar 13:40 vol/
>
> vinum makedev doesn't help. what gives?

You don't describe what dump has to say.  I know that they put in a
fix recently, but you don't say how old your system is.

Greg
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