Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:42:58 -0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum: no raw device? Message-ID: <20000320114257.C2898@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <p04310107b4fc1dc79eee@[209.239.239.22]>; from jpr@vcnet.com on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:36:53AM -0800 References: <p04310107b4fc1dc79eee@[209.239.239.22]>
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On Monday, 20 March 2000 at 10:36:53 -0800, Jon Rust wrote:
> I just finished rebuilding a machine with 4.0-STABLE. When I was
> done, I ran my vinum config to create a RAID-10 volume. Everything
> went fine (newfs, mount, actual use). Whoa! I don't have a "rraid10"
> in /dev/vinum. Where'd the raw device go?
It's called /dev/vinum/raid10:
> newweb:~{11} $ ls -l /dev/vinum
> crw-r----- 1 root wheel 91, 0 Mar 20 10:19 raid10
>
> I went back into vinum and issued a makedev command, but that didn't
> bring it back. Here's my steps: create vinum_config_file; start
> raid10.p1 (to get the second plex out of the inital "faulty" state);
> newfs -v /dev/vinum/raid10; doh! no raw device, back into vinum and
> "makedev"; still no raw device.
One of the big changes in FreeBSD 4.0 is that there are no *block*
devices any more; instead, the devices which were previously block
devices are now character (raw) devices. Unfortunately, I forgot to
update the man page before the release, but it'll be done Real Soon
Now.
Greg
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