vinum swap no longer working.

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 11 04:25:31 PDT 2004


On Monday, 11 October 2004 at 11:26:13 +0200, Mark Frasa wrote:
> On 2004.10.11 10:43:02 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>> [missing attribution to Greg Lehey]
>>>> On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:00:04 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote:
>>>>> This may belong on current,> I upgraded to 5.2 from 5.1 and my
>>>>> kernel (GENERIC) now refuses to use /dev/vinum/swap as my swap
>>>>> device.>> # swapon /dev/vinum/swap> swapon: /dev/vinum/swap:
>>>>> Operation not supported by device> # Is this a 5.2 bug or do I have
>>>>> vinum incorrectly configured?
>>>>
>>>> This is a 5.2 bug.  It was last mentioned here a day or two ago, and
>>>> I'm currently chasing it.
>>>
>>> Since this is a message from the 28th of December 2003 , can anyone
>>> tell me when this issue will be solved?  Otherwise i have to
>>> consider buying PATA disks which allows me to run 4.10 again.
>>
>> Vinum is being rewritten; the new one is called gvinum or geom_vinum.
>> It handles swap, and it should be in 5.3.
>
> Does the vinum in FreeBSD 4.10 has the same problem?

No.

Greg
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