Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:38:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kevin Bailey <noone@nowhere.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No /dev/vinum/rstripe Message-ID: <20000709163816.G14455@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <39681555.AC1DA919@nowhere.com> References: <39681555.AC1DA919@nowhere.com>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Saturday, 8 July 2000 at 23:01:57 -0700, Kevin Bailey wrote: > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) >> I'd be interested in what you found in the man page that made you >> think that this would work. > > (Again, this is 4.0-RELEASE) > > man 4 vinum > > ... > > MAKING FILE SYSTEMS > > ...if you have a volume 'concat', use the following commands to create a > ufs file system on it: > > # newfs -v /dev/vinum/rconcat > > Notice concat -> rconcat. I myself have written drivers which > tweaked the names of devices. If /dev/vinum/stripe had existed, it > would be worth a try, right ? Indeed. That's why I suggested that. But you didn't have a volume 'stripe', you had a volume 'vinum0'. >> What was the problem? If you have a crash with Vinum, I want to know >> about it. You should have a file /var/tmp/vinum_history which >> contains the commands you issued. Check out >> http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html for further info. > > I included /var/tmp/vinum_history in the first email: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2628049+0+current/freebsd-questions > > Unfortunately it can't show evocations of newfs and mount > (which were what triggered the crashes.) mount caused a > system crash when I tried to mount vinum0 before I newsf'd > it. I forget which device I ran newfs -v on to cause it to > crash. > > I don't consider these crashes to be Vinum's fault at all. > That's what happens when you use newfs and mount incorrectly. I consider any crash caused by purely userland functions to be a bug. It shouldn't be that way. I'd like to see any dump you get doing these things. > The only improvement I would make is to change the manpages > to say 'newfs -v /dev/vinum/vinumX (where X is the number > Vinum has chosen)' instead of rconcat. But that's only if you let Vinum choose it. If you use the normal configuration interface, the name is the name of your choice. The current documentation is more accurate. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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