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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:50:17 +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:  <20010312155017.R11986@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010311203903.M18351@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 08:39:03PM -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> <20010312091758.R57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010311203903.M18351@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 20:39:03 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> [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.

No, that's a gratuitous change.  All the docco talks about keeping the
volumes in the main directory.  That's why people are having trouble.
Yes, it looks more uniform, but the objects aren't uniform.

Greg
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