Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:02:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Vinum heart attack Message-ID: <20010402120212.D25226@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <871yrcnijq.fsf@pooh.honeypot>; from kirk@strauser.com on Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:26:33PM -0500 References: <87vgooi7kz.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <20010402082816.J77617@wantadilla.lemis.com> <87g0fsi1i2.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <20010402102211.B25226@wantadilla.lemis.com> <871yrcnijq.fsf@pooh.honeypot>
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On Sunday, 1 April 2001 at 21:26:33 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2001-04-02T00:52:12Z, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: > >>> What would've been the proper response? I don't have a log of the errors >>> (/var/log/vinum_history has nothing, and neither does /var/log/messages), >>> but they were along the lines of: >>> >>> Could not create /dev/vinum/plex - directory already exists >>> >>> or something very similar. The end result was an empty /dev/vinum. 'vinum >>> list' gave a huge dump of invalid volumes, plexes, subdrives, and >>> drives. > >> It would have been useful to see this dump. > > OK. I restored the old /sbin/vinum executable, rebooted into single user, > and tried to use the old command to start vinum: > > ################ > > Can't create /dev/vinum/: File exists > Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/: File exists This looks very old. Which version of vinum(8) is this? > This is pretty much the exact setup that gave me fits in the first > place: an older version of /sbin/vinum choking on a newer kernel and > modules. Ah. Yes, you can't do that. You *must* have your kernel and userland in sync. 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-fs" in the body of the message
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