From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 5 16:28: 8 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 16:28:06 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67C037B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:28:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 98EAE6A90D; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 10:58:02 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 10:58:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Daniel Lang Cc: dxoch , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Loading Vinum at boot time (was: Vinum Question) Message-ID: <20010106105802.E48589@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010105141224.E17176@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <3A55D971.42FB0B16@escape.gr> <20010105154507.F17176@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010105154507.F17176@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>; from dl@leo.org on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:45:09PM +0000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 5 January 2001 at 15:45:09 +0000, Daniel Lang wrote: > dxoch wrote on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:21:55PM +0000: >>> Although loader is more sophisticated, it does not know about vinum, >> >> I thought the same myself byt, in that case, >> what is the purpose of the vinum_load option ? > > As I said, to load the module before booting the kernel. > Just as the other modules. As the module is loaded into > the _kernel_ not into 'loader' or anything you cannot use it > until the kernel booted. > > I guess it makes little difference, if you load the klm at > this stage or later. Nearly all parts of the system, that > need a specific module, load it on demand, if its not present > at startup (ipf doesn't unfortunately ;)). And you can load > many via /etc/rc* > > There may be situations in which it is required or at least > of advantage if the module is loaded before booting. > > Although you can set the root-device in loader.conf, it > probably won't work to set it to a vinum device. Well, the obvious way to find out whether Vinum supports a root volume is to read the documentation. The answer is "not yet". When it's ready (maybe soon), we'll obviously need to load Vinum along with the kernel. Then we'll need the parameter. So why is it in there now? Because there's an entry for *every* kld in loader.conf. Greg -- 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-stable" in the body of the message