Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:02:37 +0100 (CET) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum broken by devstat changes? Message-ID: <20030326100102.Q1534@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <20030325183905.A25690@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20030325184134.E77254@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20030325183905.A25690@panzer.kdm.org>
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: KDM>On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:06:52 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: KDM>> On Tuesday, 25 March 2003 at 18:44:03 +0100, Hartmut Brandt wrote: KDM>> > KDM>> > Hi, KDM>> > KDM>> > when calling 'vinum start' it responds with KDM>> > KDM>> > usage: read drive [drive ...] KDM>> > KDM>> > from looking at the code, it appears that it cannot find the disk drives KDM>> > to read the configuration from. KDM>> > KDM>> > vinum read da0 da1 KDM>> > KDM>> > just works. KDM>> > KDM>> > So what's the problem? (kernel and user land from today) KDM>> KDM>> Check vinum(8), function vinum_start (in KDM>> /usr/src/sbin/vinum/commands.c). It's possible that the changes have KDM>> broken some of the tests, probably of stat->device_type. I can't KDM>> think it's too difficult to fix. KDM> KDM>disk_create() now creates the devstat entry for disks, but defaults KDM>everything to be a direct access (with no interface type). KDM> KDM>I've got patches in progress to fix that, but it looks like things should KDM>work with the current state of affairs. KDM> KDM>Have you rebuilt world? That was just a fresh world and kernel. It took me some time to get it up again - the vinum partition holds the ports for my other machines. I just have no time to work on this... KDM>It looks like vinum(8) doesn't include a call to devstat_checkversion(), so KDM>it's possible you've got a version mismatch but no way to know it. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org
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