sparc 64 - 5.1-RELEASE - - fdisk - bsdlabel - vinum

[John-Mark Gurney]

vezku at surfeu.fi wrote this message on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 14:55 +0300:
> I've been testing vinum on 5.1-RELEASE (sparc64) and have a few questions.
> I believe the problem is sparc64 specific.

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> Thanks for any input. If I get it right I'll write in depth document
> available for all...software-RAID is such low-level service it needs to
> work 100%.

You are probably hitting the bug that causes sparc64 on -current not
to complile.  Vinum has it's own disklabel routines because of the
disklabel sometimes not being writable.  But this is a problem since
sparc64 isn't using bsd disklabel's...

I just realized, how does one change the partitioning on a sparc64
box w/o using sysinstall?  disklabel doesn't exist (at least not
on the 5.1-BETA w/ -current kernel), and bsdlabel doesn't know
anything about sparcs.

Guess that's another thing that needs to be fixed.

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