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Date:      Fri, 04 Oct 2002 18:27:30 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        n0go013 <ttz@blahdeblah.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [ GEOM tests ] disklabel warnings and vinum drives lost 
Message-ID:  <35389.1033748850@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Oct 2002 17:11:19 BST." <20021004161119.GA10830@pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk> 

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In message <20021004161119.GA10830@pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk>, n0go013 writes
:
>On 04.10-15:40, fergus wrote:
>> On 04.10-14:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> [...]
>> > I suspect vinum uses this sysctl to get an inventory of disks in
>> > the system, so can I get you to try again making sure you have
>> > rev. 1.20 of src/sys/geom/geom_disk.c ?
>[...]
>> i'll let you know the test results when i have some.
>
>same results -- can't initialise any drives.  i think the example below
>points more directly to the issue but i'm pretty sure it is because the
>direct read from the disk does not return a valid disklabel.  without a
>'vinum' partition entry vinum spews.

I have no idea how vinum does this or something else, but clearly
something is not done the right way in vinum...

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