Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:17:48 +0100 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gstat: geom_gettree = -1: No such file or directory Message-ID: <hipbrr$c2c$2@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <hhqtmn$sut$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <hhlcfe$tqk$1@ger.gmane.org> <20100103013537.GK3508@acme.spoerlein.net> <hhqftc$m4a$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B40E7B6.8040500@acm.poly.edu> <hhqtmn$sut$1@ger.gmane.org>
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martinko wrote: > Boris Kochergin wrote: >> martinko wrote: >>> Ulrich Spörlein wrote: >>>> On Fri, 01.01.2010 at 18:47:27 +0100, martinko wrote: >>>>> Hi list, >>>>> >>>>> gstat(8) does not work here on 8.0 (it worked happily on 6.x and >>>>> 7.x) : >>>>> >>>>> # gstat >>>>> gstat: geom_gettree = -1: No such file or directory >>>>> >>>>> Is this known ? What can I do ? >>>> >>>> I doubt that it is widely known, but I've seen these 2-3 times before >>>> when fussing around with USB media and/or md(4) devices with gmirror on >>>> top. Basically, if you get really creative with the geom layering, this >>>> is likely to happen. >>>> >>>> It sure is a bug, but without a good way to reproduce, noone's gonna >>>> fix >>>> it. >>> >>> Well, it is definitely reproducible here -- I cannot run gstat(8). >>> >>> Apart from mouse I have no USB devices connected. >>> >>> I use tmpmfs="YES" in rc.conf but I do not use gmirror nor any other >>> creative GEOM layering. >>> >>> If someone's willing to investigate -- what info should I provide ? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Martin >> I believe geom_gettree() gets its information from the kern.geom.confxml >> sysctl. With that said, can you put the output of the following command >> somewhere? >> >> sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml > > Yes, you're right and now I think I know what may cause this bug and it > worries me even more -- my FAT32 partition has a funny name but it for > sure was not like this before: > > $ ll /dev/msdosfs/ > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 95 Jan 3 09:28 FREEDOS > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 103 Jan 3 09:28 01wb? > > Here's the complete output you asked for: > http://mato.gamato.org/freebsd/aw1n/kern.geom.confxml-8.0 > > Cheers, > > Martin > > PS: I've just read about some msdosfs issues and I'm very much worried > that my partition data might be corrupted. :-/ > Please note that yesterday I booted Windows and the disk label shows correctly there -- now I have no idea why geom reports garbage. (!?) BR, M:(
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