geom_vinum problems (crashes and lockups)
Matthias Schuendehuette
msch at snafu.de
Sat Jun 26 17:03:32 GMT 2004
On Saturday 26 June 2004 17:45, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> [...] The next problem is that you might specify /dev/da1s1a as
> vinum drive but get /dev/da1s1c or even /dev/da1s1. 'Classic vinum'
> looked at the type field in the disklabel, but we don't do this
> anymore.
Perhaps it would be a solution to select the 'least value'-partition in
this case - postulating that
/dev/da1s1 >= /dev/da1s1c >= /dev/da1s1[a-b,d-h] (which is always the
case). In the moment the opposite is the case and geom_vinum
opens /dev/da1s1 in that situation :-(
I don't know, if, when opening /dev/da1s1a for writing, GEOM triggers a
spoil event as well because GEOM *is aware* that da1s1a is in fact the
same as da1s1c resp. da1s1. Does anybody (Lukas/Pawel/phk) know?
--
Ciao/BSD - Matthias
Matthias Schuendehuette <msch [at] snafu.de>, Berlin (Germany)
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