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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:55:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: geom_vinum committed
Message-ID:  <20040615175436.J640@korben.in.tern>
In-Reply-To: <200406151046.27093.craig@xfoil.gank.org>
References:  <20040612232725.N35614@leelou.in.tern> <200406151046.27093.craig@xfoil.gank.org>

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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Craig Boston wrote:

> On Saturday 12 June 2004 04:28 pm, Lukas Ertl wrote:
>> Bug reports, suggestions, critics and flames are happily awaited, even
>> more so when they have patches attached. :-)
>
> I don't suppose there is any equivalent to the vinum.autostart sysctl, is
> there?

No, and in theory, it shouldn't be needed.  When the module is loaded, it 
tastes all available providers and looks for those with vinum magic.

> I tried it out on a system that has everything on vinum, including root and
> swap -- loading geom_vinum from loader.  It found _SOME_ of the subdisks on
> its own during boot, but I got "Root mount failed: 22" when trying
> ufs:/dev/gvinum/root

Interesting, I didn't think that this would work at all. :-)

cheers,
le

-- 
Lukas Ertl                         http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/
le@FreeBSD.org                     http://people.freebsd.org/~le/



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