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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:31:07 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, Michael Reifenberger <root@nihil.reifenberger.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: vinum start & -current doesn't work as expected
Message-ID:  <20030209000107.GL99377@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030208214227.A1294@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <20030207105857.T2514@nihil.reifenberger.com> <200302072056.h17KujgW073866@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20030207225249.O33219@nihil.reifenberger.com> <20030208000045.I63152@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20030207232145.GE67449@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030208214227.A1294@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Saturday,  8 February 2003 at 21:42:27 +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>>> I guess it's time to dump the old vinum start code from
>>> vinum(8) completely, and use the in-kernel scan now.
>>
>> This sounds like a good idea.
>
> Not after looking a bit closer. ;-) The only difference ist that the
> userland "vinum start" uses devstat, while the in-kernel autoscan if
> vinum.autostart is set uses sysctl kern.disks (devstat is not
> available in the kernel).

Yes it is.  But there were (valid) objections to using in the kernel.
By the time they came up, I was already using it in userland, and
since nobody asked me to back it out, I didn't :-)

> Both use the same backend function.  So yes, the userland should
> probably be changed to use the sysctl as well,

Correct.

> but that's certainly not the root of Michael's problems.  Something
> else must be the problem there.

Yes, I'll look at that in a minute.

Greg
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