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Date:      Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:51:50 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>, tim@scratch.demon.co.uk
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vinum again
Message-ID:  <19990308155150.S490@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990307201942.00a3c100@mail-r>; from Ludwig Pummer on Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 08:26:34PM -0800
References:  <4.1.19990307143449.00a76be0@mail-r> <199903072143.VAA00531@franklin.matlink> <4.1.19990307143449.00a76be0@mail-r> <19990308143832.N490@lemis.com> <4.1.19990307201942.00a3c100@mail-r>

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On Sunday,  7 March 1999 at 20:26:34 -0800, Ludwig Pummer wrote:
> At 08:08 PM 3/7/99 , Greg Lehey wrote:
>> Specifically, what you *should* do is:
>>
>>  1.  Close to the beginning of your /etc/rc:
>>
>>        vinum start
>
> 3.1-STABLE's /etc/defaults/rc.conf already has
> ...
> ### Miscellaneous administrative options
> ...
> vinum_drives=""            # put in names of disks containing vinum drives
>
> and /etc/rc at line 50:
> if [ "X$skip_diskconf" != "XYES" -a -n "$vinum_drives" ]; then
>         vinum read $vinum_drives

Yes, I know, since I put them there.

> That and correct entries is /etc/fstab makes vinum start up
> properly.

Yes, but it's confusing and potentially dangerous.  'vinum start' goes
out and finds the vinum drives.

> However, at the time vinum is started, / is still read-only, so
> vinum complains that it can't remake the /dev entries.

That has since been changed, but it's probably the case in -RELEASE.

> Despite the complaints, everything starts up and works properly.

Correct.

Greg
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