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Date:      Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:40:19 +0100
From:      Dieter Rothacker <didi@dr-tech.de>
To:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
Cc:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: 5.0RC2: does vinum work???
Message-ID:  <3E1C9AC3.6010905@dr-tech.de>
References:  <200301082129.NAA24557@mina.soco.agilent.com>

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Darryl Okahata wrote:

>"Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@withagen.nl> write:
>
>  
>
>>Vinum is running fine here on 5.0 for already quite some time.
>>
>>the trick is most likely:
>>
>>    newfs -T ufs /dev/vinum/vinum0
>>    
>>
>
>     Nope.  No joy:
>
>        # newfs -T ufs /dev/vinum/myvol
>        newfs: /dev/vinum/myvol: can't figure out file system partition
>
>Since it's working for you, the problem is probably related to newfs
>(existing vinum volumes are probably fine).
>
>     Arg.  Out of desperation, I tried using "vinum0" as the volume
>name, instead of "myvol".  It worked (the "-T" isn't needed).  Foo.
>Arg.
>  
>
Yep, the naming is the problem. Afaik due to the GEOM system newfs has 
changed. The vinum volume name must either end in '0' or 'a' to allow 
the newfs operation... however there is some message in current which 
says that someone (grog?) is working on it.

-- 
didi
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