From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 11 20:39:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C9137B719 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:39:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2C4d3m25887; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:39:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:39:03 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Jacob Subject: Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS? Message-ID: <20010311203903.M18351@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010311115147.L57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010311112923.A41738@bank-pedersen.dk> <20010311032701.G18351@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010312091758.R57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010312091758.R57126@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:17:58AM +1030 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Greg Lehey [010311 15:21] wrote: > On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 3:27:02 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > 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. Er, too late. :) On a devfs system here's what you'll see: ~ % ls -lR /dev/vinum/ total 0 crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000001 Feb 22 21:26 Control crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000002 Feb 22 21:26 control crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x40000000 Feb 22 21:26 controld drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 plex drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 sd drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 0 Mar 11 03:24 vol /dev/vinum/plex: total 0 crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 1 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0 /dev/vinum/sd: total 0 crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 2 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0.s0 crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0x10000002 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0.p0.s1 /dev/vinum/vol: total 0 crw------- 1 root wheel 91, 0 Feb 22 21:26 vinum0 I'd like to keep it this way, it just makes sense. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message