From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 16:30:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD1F16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:30:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C2043D2B for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:30:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC522BD4C for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:30:44 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id EA1CF5120C; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:00:42 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:00:42 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Paul Mather Message-ID: <20031211003042.GB81968@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20031210195205.GA54769@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031210195205.GA54769@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum swap and 5.2-RC X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:30:48 -0000 --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 10 December 2003 at 14:52:05 -0500, Paul Mather wrote: > I'm currently running 5.1-RELEASE-p11 and am planning on upgrading to > 5.2-RELEASE when it is released. I thought I'd get a jump on things, > as well as help out testing the current 5.2-RC, so I cvsupped > RELENG_5_2 and did a make buildworld and make buildkernel. > > When I rebooted in single-user after doing make installkernel, I went > to do the usual preparations to do a "make installworld" but found > that the 5.2-RC kernel would not let me swap on my Vinum swap > partition. When I do "swapon -a" (for my md swap-backed /tmp), I get: > > /dev/vinum/swap: Operation not supported by device > > I searched the mailing lists and found a thread from late this > September saying swapping to Vinum devices no longer works in > -CURRENT. So, I guess I need to revert back to swapping to the actual > devices, and losing a little RAID 1 functionality there. (I have the > system set up as two mirrored drives, including root, as per the > chapter from _The Complete FreeBSD_ that Greg Lehey makes available on > his WWW site.) > > I still have the original install partitions from before going > "all-Vinum" on the system. So, I can change my /etc/fstab to use > /dev/ad0s1b (and /dev/ad1s1b) as swap devices. My question is this: > do I need to delete my "swap" volume from my Vinum configuration, so > as not to confuse Vinum re: possible inconsistencies? No. If you don't do anything with it, there can't be any inconsistencies. I'll look at the cause of the problems. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/17qyIubykFB6QiMRAhmRAKCABdyItZSvrN7KGOGOa1Wis8bIIwCfQb7i fyXPGDdgNxDJSvI7zUcsP3g= =kxhf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8--