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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 1999 08:31:55 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, Andrew Atrens <atrens@nortelnetworks.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ... 
Message-ID:  <11220.935217115@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:04:04 %2B1000." <19990821160404.B281@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> 

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In message <19990821160404.B281@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>, John Birrell writes:
>On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 07:30:46AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> >but I'm still looking for the place
>> >where the dev1 entry is supposed to be initialised.
>> 
>> In dkmodslice() (and friends).
>
>Hmmm, I know this is your code, but are you sure? 8-). My understanding of
>dkmodslice() and friends is that they manipulate dev_t entries, but don't
>actually initialise them. Since the subr_diskslice code takes a dev_t
>and goes off and accesses the raw partition entry, my guess is that
>vnopen() should check if the raw entry has been initialised, and if
>not do it, just like it does for the one you open.

That could be done too.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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