Announcing: gvirstor

[Yoshihiro Ota]

Hi.

I gave a shot at this but it didn't work.
I downloaded gvirstor-beta3.tbz.
I have a coupe of questions.

1. Is this -current only?
I tried on 6.1 and 6-stable(currently 6.2-RERELEASE)

2. Have you made any changes since you posted the orginal e-mail?

3. If so, how do you check out fro "Perforce (under the name \\gvirstor)"?

Here is some output I got afer # make ; make so

Thanks,
Hiro

# make install
install -o root -g wheel -m 555   geom_virstor.ko /boot/kernel
kldxref /boot/kernel
# ./gvirstor label -v -s 500 test md2 md3
Unknown command: label
usage: gvirstor help
       gvirstor list [name ...]
       gvirstor status [-s] [name ...]
       gvirstor load [-v]
       gvirstor unload [-v]`
# grep label *c
g_virstor.c:/* Declare malloc(9) label */
geom_virstor.c: {"label", G_FLAG_VERBOSE | G_FLAG_LOADKLD, virstor_main,
geom_virstor.c:static void      virstor_label(struct gctl_req *req);
geom_virstor.c: if (strcmp(name, "label") == 0)
geom_virstor.c:         virstor_label(req);
geom_virstor.c:virstor_label(struct gctl_req *req)


On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:10:46 +0200
Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> wrote:

> I'm glad to announce availability of GEOM virtual storage class,
> (currently) named "gvirstor". The purpose of this class is to enable
> creation of huge virtual providers (for example: many terabytes) backed
> by limited physical storage, with the expectation that more physical
> storage will be added later. This is a part of a logical volume manager,
> and provides functionality up to now not available as a native GEOM
> class.
> 
> gvirstor is currently available either from Perforce (under the name
> \\gvirstor) or at http://wiki.freebsd.org/gvirstor in a convenient tbz
> archive with appropriate Makefile. Please read the README file packaged
> in the archive for instructions on how to build and run gvirstor.