Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:51:22 +0800 From: KT Sin <ktsin@acm.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd7 and mdconfig -l -u oddity Message-ID: <20071121105122.GA3421@passion.hsins.com> In-Reply-To: <20071121103211.GA3190@passion.hsins.com> References: <20071121103211.GA3190@passion.hsins.com>
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ah...there appears to be a PR (conf/118035) reporting breakage caused by changes in mdconfig -l -u. kt :( On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:32:11PM +0800, KT Sin wrote: > i've upgraded my server from 6 to 7 and mdconfig -l -u is behaving > in a weird (and incorrect) manner. > > on freebsd 7, mdconfig -l -u returns exit code of 0 even for > non-existence md devices. > > has anyone got the same problem or is it just me? this weirdness is > breaking the code to detect next available md device number in > ports/freebsd-snapshot. > > e.g. > > on freebsd6: > > si1:~[512]# mdconfig -l -u 0 ; echo $? > md0 swap 2.0G > 0 > si1:~[513]# mdconfig -l -u 1 ; echo $? > mdconfig: ioctl(/dev/mdctl): No such file or directory > 1 > > on freebsd7 beta3: > > melati# uname -a > FreeBSD melati.hsins.com 7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 #0: Mon Nov 19 06:25:50 MYT 2007 ktsin@melati.hsins.com:/tmp/obj/usr/src/sys/MELATI i386 > melati# mdconfig -l -u 0 ; echo $? > md0 swap 2.0G > 0 > melati# mdconfig -l -u 1 ; echo $? > 0 > > kt
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