Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:38:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: geom_vinum committed Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040612173703.96929A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20040612232725.N35614@leelou.in.tern>
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote: > I've just committed a first geomified version of vinum, surprisingly > called geom_vinum. This is great news -- thanks so much for the work you've been doing to make this happen. I know a lot of FreeBSD users will also be very pleased to hear about it! Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research > > Please read on before you all go out and run your cvsups, as > there are some things to note: > > *) It's not yet connected to the build, as it is not really finished > yet, but I wanted to give you something to play around with. Some > functions of the 'old' vinum aren't implemented yet, some will never > be, as they aren't needed anymore, or where I don't see a real reason > to bring them over. > > *) As if you wouldn't have guessed: don't use it on important data. > It probably won't set your box on fire, but you never know. > > *) You can use it on your existing vinum setup, as it uses the same > on-disk configuration format. But don't run both vinum and > geom_vinum and the same time. > > *) You shouldn't need to label any desired slice as type vinum with > bsdlabel(8) anymore. In theory, you should be able to dedicate a > whole disk to geom_vinum (i.e. 'drive bigstuff device /dev/ad2'). > > *) Don't unload the module if you have valid objects in your setup. Due > to a bug in GEOM this will either panic or deadlock. You can pick up > a patch at <http://people.freebsd.org/~le/geom_subr.c.diff>; and > rebuild your kernel, then you can safely unload the KLD again. > > *) If you want to test it: > > cd /sys/modules/geom/geom_vinum > make && make install > cd /usr/src/sbin/gvinum > make && make install > > You can then run 'gvinum' (which will load the KLD) and create > objects like in the 'old' vinum. The volumes will appear as devices > in /dev/gvinum/. > > Bug reports, suggestions, critics and flames are happily awaited, even > more so when they have patches attached. :-) > > Thanks, > le > > -- > Lukas Ertl http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/ > le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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