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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--f54savKjS/tSNRaU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --f54savKjS/tSNRaU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+RZpDIubykFB6QiMRApLJAJ49u/rfJSvb5wENFOHYe2C1QNm8ZACePuGM E1BzEX6fmxiilAwQxr69g10= =KIOk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f54savKjS/tSNRaU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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