Re: HEADSUP: geom_vinum committed

From: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:38:19 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote:

> I've just committed a first geomified version of vinum, surprisingly
> called geom_vinum. 

This is great news -- thanks so much for the work you've been doing to
make this happen.  I know a lot of FreeBSD users will also be very pleased
to hear about it!

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert_at_fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research


> 
> Please read on before you all go out and run your cvsups, as
> there are some things to note:
> 
> *) It's not yet connected to the build, as it is not really finished
>     yet, but I wanted to give you something to play around with.  Some
>     functions of the 'old' vinum aren't implemented yet, some will never
>     be, as they aren't needed anymore, or where I don't see a real reason
>     to bring them over.
> 
> *) As if you wouldn't have guessed: don't use it on important data.
>     It probably won't set your box on fire, but you never know.
> 
> *) You can use it on your existing vinum setup, as it uses the same
>     on-disk configuration format.  But don't run both vinum and
>     geom_vinum and the same time.
> 
> *) You shouldn't need to label any desired slice as type vinum with
>     bsdlabel(8) anymore.  In theory, you should be able to dedicate a
>     whole disk to geom_vinum (i.e. 'drive bigstuff device /dev/ad2').
> 
> *) Don't unload the module if you have valid objects in your setup.  Due
>     to a bug in GEOM this will either panic or deadlock.  You can pick up
>     a patch at <http://people.freebsd.org/~le/geom_subr.c.diff> and
>     rebuild your kernel, then you can safely unload the KLD again.
> 
> *) If you want to test it:
> 
>     cd /sys/modules/geom/geom_vinum
>     make && make install
>     cd /usr/src/sbin/gvinum
>     make && make install
> 
>     You can then run 'gvinum' (which will load the KLD) and create
>     objects like in the 'old' vinum.  The volumes will appear as devices
>     in /dev/gvinum/.
> 
> Bug reports, suggestions, critics and flames are happily awaited, even
> more so when they have patches attached. :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> le
> 
> -- 
> Lukas Ertl                         http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/
> le_at_FreeBSD.org                     http://people.freebsd.org/~le/
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