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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 2001 01:28:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject:   Re: workaround for broken mfs using vn. (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC ) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101290128250.21912-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <19503.980759275@critter>

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Yeah, err, but mdconfig panics for me....


On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <200101290903.f0T93ms62313@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes:
> >
> >    It's sad to see mfs not work, but I'm sure Poul will fixup whatever
> >    problems md has replacing it real quick.
> >
> >    In the mean time, you can use 'vn' to workaround the MFS issue.  It's
> >    a little messy, but it works:
> >
> >    vnconfig -c -s labels,reserve -S 256m /dev/vn0
> >    disklabel -r -w vn0c auto
> >    newfs /dev/vn0c
> >    tunefs -n enable /dev/vn0c
> >    mount /dev/vn0 /usr/src/sys/compile		(or whatever)
> 
> Actually you can get in trouble because vn(4) is not fully DEVFS savy.
> That is one of the reasons why the vn(4) functionality has been
> integrated into md(4).
> 
> Please see mdconfig(8) for how to do this right.
> 
> --
> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
> 



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