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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:17:58 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Subject:   Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?
Message-ID:  <20010312091758.R57126@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010311032701.G18351@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 03:27:02AM -0800
References:  <20010311115147.L57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103110003160.68894-100000@beppo.feral.com> <20010311112923.A41738@bank-pedersen.dk> <20010311032701.G18351@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at  3:27:02 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk> [010311 02:29] wrote:
>>
>> I'll sneak in my experience with DEVFS+vinum here as well:
>>
>>   vinum: loaded
>>   vinum: reading configuration from /dev/da3s1f
>>   vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da1s1e
>>   vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da2s1e
>>   vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da0s1e
>>   swapon: adding /dev/da1s1b as swap device
>>   swapon: adding /dev/da2s1b as swap device
>>   Automatic boot in progress...
>>   /dev/da0s1a: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
>>   /dev/da0s1a: clean, 406977 free (1049 frags, 50741 blocks, 0.2% fragmentation)
>>   Can't stat /dev/vinum/raid01: No such file or directory
>>   Can't stat /dev/vinum/raid01: No such file or directory
>>   /dev/vinum/raid01: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM.
>>   /dev/vinum/raid01: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>>
>> This was with a -current from around March 1. (don't think
>> anything has changed since).  Booting a non-DEVFS kernel
>> passes the fs-check and works as expected.
>
> Vinum+DEVFS doesn't make the million symlinks that non-devfs
> vinum does.

The only symlinks that the non-devfs version makes are to the drives.
Everything else is device nodes.  But yes, it doesn't make as many
device nodes, and that is a Good Thing.

> Try using /dev/vinum/vol/raid01 instead of /dev/vinum/raid01
>
> (notice you need the '/vol/' path component)

I missed that.  This is not correct.  The directory /dev/vinum/vol
should go away.

Greg
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