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Date:      Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:02:13 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My Vinum heart attack
Message-ID:  <20010402120212.D25226@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <871yrcnijq.fsf@pooh.honeypot>; from kirk@strauser.com on Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:26:33PM -0500
References:  <87vgooi7kz.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <20010402082816.J77617@wantadilla.lemis.com> <87g0fsi1i2.fsf@pooh.honeypot> <20010402102211.B25226@wantadilla.lemis.com> <871yrcnijq.fsf@pooh.honeypot>

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On Sunday,  1 April 2001 at 21:26:33 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
> At 2001-04-02T00:52:12Z, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes:
>
>>> What would've been the proper response?  I don't have a log of the errors
>>> (/var/log/vinum_history has nothing, and neither does /var/log/messages),
>>> but they were along the lines of:
>>>
>>>   Could not create /dev/vinum/plex - directory already exists
>>>
>>> or something very similar.  The end result was an empty /dev/vinum.  'vinum
>>> list' gave a huge dump of invalid volumes, plexes, subdrives, and
>>> drives.
>
>> It would have been useful to see this dump.
>
> OK.  I restored the old /sbin/vinum executable, rebooted into single user,
> and tried to use the old command to start vinum:
>
> ################
>
> Can't create /dev/vinum/: File exists
> Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/: File exists

This looks very old.  Which version of vinum(8) is this?

> This is pretty much the exact setup that gave me fits in the first
> place: an older version of /sbin/vinum choking on a newer kernel and
> modules.

Ah.  Yes, you can't do that.  You *must* have your kernel and userland
in sync.

Greg
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