On Tuesday, 28 September 1999 at 0:36:40 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> At 08:41 AM 9/28/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> It has changed (again).
>
> And the preferred method is...
> a) /dev/da0
> b) /dev/da0s1
> c) /dev/da0s1e
> (-current and -stable I hope :)
(b) or (c). (a) isn't a slice. Note that it won't take slice c,
either.
>>> Not to surprising that it paniced with what appeared to be a
>>> "dedicated" disk (ie da0e).
>>
>> It's surprising. Good software shouldn't panic. But this input is
>> valuable, because now I know where to look.
>
> Should have spoken up quite a while back. Figured it was pilot error and
> the panic was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Read http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html. It's also in
vinum(4).
>> I think you're misinterpreting what Brad was saying. He was issuing
>> the same command, once during boot and once later. I've had a number
>> of reports of this problem, but this is the first one that helps me
>> find the bug.
>
> Interpreted as an either/or. Vinum read followed by a vinum read (or start)?
You don't want to use vinum read. Just vinum start. And I've found
the bug (thanks, Brad). I'll be committing a fix Real Soon Now.
>> It's all in the pipeline. But first we need Vinum on the root file
>> system.
>
> How is this coming along, been quite a while since anything has discussed
> (-current/-stable/-cvs). Last thing was back in July.
It's still in the pipeline. I can't give any time frame. There are
some bugs I need to look at (http://www.lemis.com/vinum/bugs.html),
and then I can start thinking about it.
Greg
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