Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:26:52 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: vezku@surfeu.fi Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sparc 64 - 5.1-RELEASE - - fdisk - bsdlabel - vinum Message-ID: <20030612062652.GA748@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <4344.62.142.81.6.1055332511.squirrel@webmail.surfeu.fi> References: <4344.62.142.81.6.1055332511.squirrel@webmail.surfeu.fi>
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vezku@surfeu.fi wrote this message on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 14:55 +0300:
> I've been testing vinum on 5.1-RELEASE (sparc64) and have a few questions.
> I believe the problem is sparc64 specific.
[...]
> Thanks for any input. If I get it right I'll write in depth document
> available for all...software-RAID is such low-level service it needs to
> work 100%.
You are probably hitting the bug that causes sparc64 on -current not
to complile. Vinum has it's own disklabel routines because of the
disklabel sometimes not being writable. But this is a problem since
sparc64 isn't using bsd disklabel's...
I just realized, how does one change the partitioning on a sparc64
box w/o using sysinstall? disklabel doesn't exist (at least not
on the 5.1-BETA w/ -current kernel), and bsdlabel doesn't know
anything about sparcs.
Guess that's another thing that needs to be fixed.
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