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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:24:36 +0200
From:      Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/vinum vinumioctl.c
Message-ID:  <20021203182436.GB3146@tiiu.internal>
In-Reply-To: <92539.1038911567@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20021203100440.GA1652@tiiu.internal> <92539.1038911567@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:32:47AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp
<phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> >>   Log:
> >>   Implement DIOCGDINFO for volumes.  newfs will no longer build a file
> >>   system on a volume without a disk label.
> >>   
> >>   Approved by: re (rwatson)
> >
> >It's the reverse currently as I understand. The vinum(8) states that
> >"vinum label somevolume" is deprecated and not needed for newfs(8).
> >The man page needs to be fixed. If I'm mistaken please ignore me.
> 
> My guess on this trouble is that vinum kludges up the answers to the
> DIOCGMEDIASIZE and DIOCGSECTORSIZE ioctls from the BSD label, and
> fails if there isn't one.

Ok, so I got it backwards myself. I thought that "vinum label" will
be mandatory now and Greg forgot to commit manpage changes. Sorry
Greg.
-- 

Vallo Kallaste
kalts@estpak.ee

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