/dev/ufs

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 14), Heinrich Rebehn said:
> 
>>Hmm, it does not work:
>>
>>root at antsrv1 [~] # kldstat
>>Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>> 1    9 0xc0400000 3c8ed4   kernel
>> 2   14 0xc07c9000 56270    acpi.ko
>> 3    1 0xc3c38000 17000    linux.ko
>> 4    1 0xc9610000 4000     geom_label.ko
>> 5    1 0xc918f000 2000     geom_vol_ffs.ko
>>root at antsrv1 [~] # tunefs -L backup /dev/da1s1a
>>root at antsrv1 [~] # tunefs -p /dev/da1s1a
>>tunefs: volume label: (-L)                                 backup
>>root at antsrv1 [~] # ls /dev/ufs
>>ls: /dev/ufs: No such file or directory
>>
>>The filesystem is freshly newfs'ed and the partitions have not been
>>resized.
> 
> 
> Try unloding and reloading geom_label.ko; I don't know if it is smart
> enough to realize that the tunefs command added a label.  If that
> doesn't work you'll have to start adding G_LABEL_DEBUG calls to
> /sys/geom/label/g_label_ufs.c and figure out exactly where it's
> failing.
>  

geom_label cannot be unloaded:

root at antsrv1 [~] # kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
  1    8 0xc0400000 3c8ed4   kernel
  2   14 0xc07c9000 56270    acpi.ko
  3    1 0xc3c38000 17000    linux.ko
  4    1 0xc9610000 4000     geom_label.ko
root at antsrv1 [~] # kldunload geom_label
kldunload: can't unload file: Operation not supported
root at antsrv1 [~] #

Am i missing something?
Rebooting is not a good option since this is our main server.

--Heinrich