20 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableRe: More problems with new slice code| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Burton Sampley | Mar 13, 1998 12:39 pm | |
| Burton Sampley | Mar 14, 1998 7:54 am | |
| Robert Watson | Mar 14, 1998 10:06 am | |
| Michael V. Harding | Mar 14, 1998 11:04 am | |
| Robert Watson | Mar 14, 1998 11:12 am | |
| Burton Sampley | Mar 14, 1998 12:11 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Mar 14, 1998 2:53 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 14, 1998 4:10 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 14, 1998 4:11 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Mar 14, 1998 4:14 pm | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Mar 14, 1998 4:33 pm | |
| Greg Shenaut | Mar 14, 1998 5:27 pm | |
| Studded | Mar 14, 1998 7:19 pm |  .comproot |
| Mike Smith | Mar 14, 1998 8:09 pm | |
| Chad R. Larson | Mar 15, 1998 12:16 am | |
| Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group | Mar 15, 1998 10:46 am | |
| Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group | Mar 15, 1998 10:57 am | |
| Mike Smith | Mar 15, 1998 2:19 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Mar 15, 1998 2:27 pm | |
| Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group | Mar 16, 1998 8:01 am |
| Subject: | Re: More problems with new slice code | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Robert Watson (rob...@cyrus.watson.org) | |
| Date: | Mar 14, 1998 2:53:58 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Burton Sampley wrote:
To the best of my knowledge (if I'm wrong, will someone please correct me), the entries are not deleted, they just become invalid, ie, they *act* like they point to /dev/null or somewhere in outerspace. I have been bitten by this in the past and have been quickly educated in the use of the fixit floppy/CDROM, which is actually a really cool tool to have! The pair have saved my butt a few times. It seems kinda odd when I explicitly give "/dev/MAKEDEV sd0s2a" (and the rest of my file systems individually) that it does what it needs to do to allow me to use that slice successfully, but "/dev/MAKEDEV all" makes the same slice no longer function.
That is what puzzled me, actually. The device names were really gone from /dev -- /dev/wd0a which had been happily there just sort of disappeared after I did a MAKEDEV of the new devices. I haven't looked enough at the MAKEDEV script to know its depths though.
I believe this has been corrected in -current, but I probably have my facts wrong.
I think all of us a one point in time have been a member of the head-scratching club. That's part of the fun of using FreeBSD. I just have a bad habit of learning at the worst possible time, like blowing up my system without a backup and all of my code for the quarter being on the unaccessible hard drive the week before finals. :-)
Oh, I would certainly rather deal with just about any head-scratchy moments in FreeBSD than run anything else. We have over 8 machines running FreeBSD of various forms in our apartment, and I do all development for work under FreeBSD. :) On the other hand, while I was bitten by this bug, and knew how to deal with it, I pity a more novice user who gets in that situation. There are, of course, risks to running -STABLE, but as it is currently a release candidate, we should try to minimize those risks. Having poked about at the code a bit where the changes were, I accept that they were simplifying and helpful; it is unfortunate, however, that the correction they provide to the code has some side-effects. sysinstall under 2.2.6 should definitely know how to deal with this config and auto-magically do it (or request confirmation first, but notify the user :).
Robert N Watson
Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ rob...@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/
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