On Monday, 18 January 1999 at 13:51:57 +0900, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote:
>
> grog> Because it doesn't work like that.  The config is stored in the
> grog> disk labels, not in a static (and not necessarily correct)
> grog> config file.  The config file is only for the first-time create.
>
> O.K. I understand (not 'vinum create' but 'vinum read'). Would you
> please ('cause I don't know :-) how to set the "vinum_slice" variable?
> We don't include /etc/rc.conf in such an early stage of /etc/rc...

Oops.  This was a thoroughly successful commit, wasn't it?  At least
it didn't break `make world'.

I'll think out another way and test more thoroughly.  How does this
look?

if [ -f /etc/vinumslices ]; then
        read /etc/vinumslices
        if [ -r /modules/vinum.ko ]; then       # jkh paranoia
                kldload vinum
                vinum read $vinum_slices
        else
                echo "Can't find /modules/vinum.ko"
        fi
fi

> grog> Currently, yes.  Peter put in hooks to statically configure
> grog> Vinum, but THEY ARE NOT TESTED.  Not at all.  Please don't use
> grog> them, or if you do, tell me only about the fixes you make.
>
> Hmm, I've used vinum without module (built-in the kernel). It works
> for a week... Anyway, I'll stop it and switch to kldloading... thank you.

OK, I take that back.  You can also tell me about your successes :-)

There's still one way you can shoot yourself in the foot with
statically configured Vinum: unless you specify VINUMDEBUG, you can
find yourself out of sync with Vinum(8): they pass structures via
ioctl, and some of the structures include debugging information.

Greg
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