On Friday, 4 October 2002 at 20:07:11 -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > >> The assumption here is that the devfs will be available to the system >> before the root is mounted transparently over it. This is also doable >> with an unmounted instance of the backing devfs, not yet mounted on >> /dev, if a transparent mount of / over top of a preexiting / -> /dev is >> not supported (i.e. devfs is mounted on /dev on the root FS, rather than >> the root FS being mounted on a backing node on which defvfs is already >> mounted on /, and the devices showing through as if they were on /). > > Actually, no -- Vinum doesn't know how to do that--the device name used in > this code originates in a userland ioctl() configuration call for Vinum. > However, here's a patch that makes Vinum use namei() to rely on devfs to > locate requested devices instead of parsing the device name and guessing > the device number (incorrectly with GEOM). Unfortunately, I almost > immediately run into a divide by zero due to a zero sector size. Jeff > Roberson mentioned to me he had a fix for this bug that he sent to Greg, > but that was never committed.
FWIW, I've never seen this code. The dates on the patch suggest that it was made in the last quarter of an hour: > --- vinumio.c 21 Aug 2002 23:39:51 -0000 1.75 > +++ vinumio.c 5 Oct 2002 00:03:09 -0000 However: RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/modules/vinum/Makefile,v revision 1.18 date: 2000/04/16 00:17:46; author: grog; state: Exp; lines: +1 -3 Remove MAINTAINER. Since that point, this particular file has had 5 updates, only one from me. Jeff's a committer; he can commit it himself if he wants. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
