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Subject: bin/28950: vinum uses the lock directory hierarchy inconsistent with FreeBSD
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>Number:         28950
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       vinum uses the lock directory hierarchy inconsistent with FreeBSD
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 13 12:20:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Drew Derbyshire
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham MA 02180 (http://www.kew.com)
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD minerva.hh.kew.com 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Jun 23 09:50:15 EDT 2001 root@:/usr/scratch/obj/usr/src/sys/MINERVA i386

Machine is using vinum for mirroring drives	

>Description:

	vinum uses /var/lock (no subdirectory) for its lock files,
	which is inconsistent with other components in the FreeBSD
	environment and non-descriptive (I had to run fstat to
	determine the owning program).

	(This also screws up muscle memory for those us of used to
	looking at FreeBSD logs with tcsh via "cd /var/l<TAB>"

	I would suggest the files should be under /var/db/vinum or
	/var/spool/lock/vinum (or another directort with vinum as
	the last component), but not at the root of the /var
	directory and not without vinum in the name.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Start vinum on a FreeBSD system.

>Fix:

	Move the directory.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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