FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2

Lukas Ertl le at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 21 10:28:35 PST 2004


On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote:

> Am Montag, 20. Dezember 2004 00:04 schrieb Nikolaj Hansen:
>> [...] The whole problem is, I cannot
>> mount any thing without doing it this way. The reason for this is, as
>> you pointed out , that my disk setup is different than the norm:
>>
>> $ sudo bsdlabel da1s1
>> Password:
>> # /dev/da1s1:
>> 8 partitions:
>> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>>   a:   512000        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384 32008
>>   b:  1228535   512000      swap
>>   c: 17767827        0    unused        0     0     # "raw" part...
>>   h: 16027292  1740535     vinum
>>
>> Both sides of the mirror are made like this.
>
> This disk setup seems to me perfectly legal. Your vinum-partition has an
> offset of 1740535 which is != 0, that's all that I meant.

Yes, this looks quite ok.  But I'm still not sure what is actually 
happening.  Can you please describe me again what the configuration looks 
like after you have the problem (gvinum printconfig)?  Do you run the 
latest -STABLE?

thanks,
le

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