Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:02:53 +0300 From: Stoyan Dimov <freebsd-stable@subscriptions.systeem.com> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAE and gvinum Message-ID: <200604120802.54598.freebsd-stable@subscriptions.systeem.com> In-Reply-To: <20060408211703.T67402@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <200604070342.01315.freebsd-stable@subscriptions.systeem.com> <20060408211703.T67402@woozle.rinet.ru>
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On Saturday 08 April 2006 20:27, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Stoyan Dimov wrote: > > SD> Hi all, > SD> > SD> I got a machine with 8GB of RAM and plenty of disk space. I need gvinum to > SD> manage big number of file systems but PAE enabled kernel does not compile > SD> modules. I couldn't figure out how to get vinum statically compiled in the > SD> kernel if that is the way to go. I am running 6-STABLE. > SD> > SD> Please advise on how to get PAE kernel and gvinum working together! > > I did not test this, but I found no reason to prevent you from compiling > gvinum in. Try the patch attached > > and add line > > device gvinum > > to you kernel config file. > > > Sincerely, > D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for your response, Dmitry! The patch did get gvinum in the kernel but then next problem came: gvinum command will not work. Looks like the first thing it tried is to load the geom_vinum.ko module which of course fails. I didn't have much time to look into this. I could boot non-PAE kernel create the volumes and then boot the PAE kernel with gvinum compiled it. Worked like a charm. Rebooting for every FS change though somewhat defeats the purpose of the volume manager. So I removed the gvinum from the kernel and compiled just the gvinum module, installed it and it worked. Now I wonder what can go wrong with this setup. There must be a reason kernel modules are disabled by default and I have no clue what is the risk of running gvinum as kernel module. I will be testing the install soon and I will let the list know if I run into problems. Any advice of course is very welcome and highly appreciated! Thanks for your help! Stoyan
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