Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:30:24 -0600 From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.3-Release fixit and gmirror (7.0-RC1 too) Message-ID: <5E1E1635-8EEF-4DF1-97A1-2EF27296D95B@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730801301155x54f271ag452a0bc002af10f7@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B8781DC-BD9A-4887-8E5E-43C87FB423DC@secure-computing.net> <9bbcef730801301155x54f271ag452a0bc002af10f7@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello folks, I've got a problem with geom and 6.3-RELEASE/7.0-RC1 that is described in greater detail below, in a conversation that started with Ivan Voras and myself. Please CC me on this thread, as I'm not on geom@. I've also filled out a Problem Report on this issue: > Thank you very much for your problem report. > It has the internal identification `misc/120169'. > The individual assigned to look at your > report is: freebsd-bugs. > > You can access the state of your problem report at any time > via this link: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120169 Thanks folks! Eric Crist On Jan 30, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 30/01/2008, Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> wrote: >> Ivan, >> >> First off, I apologize if you're the wrong person to address this >> issue to. Please feel free to send me in the correct direction. >> >> We've had a routine we've used for quite some time now regarding >> installing gmirror on our boot devices, which involved using gmirror >> from the Fixit CD to tag and load gmirror onto your boot partition. >> *All* versions of the 6.3 and 7.0 CDs we've tested have a flaw where >> they seem to have a greatly crippled version of gmirror. >> >> I found your post to freebsd-stable regarding the amd64 7.0 RC1 live >> cd from Johan Hendriks, and you mentioned that he should symlink / >> dist/ >> lib/geom to /lib/geom. We already do that in a why, by first >> chrooting to /dist. When I do this, /lib/geom appears where it >> should. >> >> I have been able to successfully use a 6.2-RELEASE CD in the mean >> time >> to get gmirror installed on new systems, but I wanted to make certain >> this is indeed a bug rather than designed. I've noticed there are >> now >> three install CDs, rather than 2, which has been historical, without >> considering the documentation CD. > > It is a bug, and quite silly one. I remember there has been attempt at > fixing it (AFAIK the proposed solution was to ad an environment > variable pointing to the correct directory) but either it was done > wrongly or somebody forgot to MFC the change. It's an annoying little > problem when trying to set up a new system and it should have been > fixed ages ago. > > If it's still not fixed in 7.0-RC1 (sorry, can't check it at the > moment), please start a thread at geom@ about it, and make it sound > urgent so somebody picks it up and commits the right fix :) > > In the mean time, if you just need an easy way to set up gmirrors and > similar things, you can try my LiveCD from here: > http://ivoras.sharanet.org/stuff/freebsd7-finstall-alpha2.iso.bz2 - > the installer is not quite ready yet but the livecd environment is > 100% identical to a regular FreeBSD installation, except with a > read-only root file system. ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks
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