On Mon, 01-Nov-1999 at 10:42:21 -0500, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 October 1999 at 19:53:51 +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> > On Fri, 29-Oct-1999 at 08:56:01 -0700, Doug White wrote:
> >> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Stephen J. Roznowski wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm looking at the tutorial on building CCDs at
> >>>
> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/x205.html
> >>
> >> I am the author of said document ;)
> >>
> >>> It seems that this page needs to be updated to include the FAQ
> >>> entry between the ccdconfig and newfs. [I don't remember the
> >>> error I had before I did the disklabel...]
> >>>
> >>> # ccdconfig ccd0 32 0 /dev/sd0c /dev/sd1c /dev/sd2c
> >>>
> >>>>> # disklabel ccd0 > /tmp/ccd.label
> >>>>> # disklabel -Rr ccd0 /tmp/ccd.label
> >>>
> >>> # newfs /dev/rccd0c
> >>>
> >>> Is this really the case? [If so, I'll send-pr a correction]
> >>
> >> ccdconfig manufactures a disklabel when you create the stripe, so you
> >> don't need to adjust the disklabel. The subdisks must have disklabels,
> >> and you can't use the C partition since ccd only uses partitions of type
> >> 4.2BSD.
> >
> > Does that mean I should not use partition c as a 4.2BSD type?
>
> Yes.
>
> > This is what I am currently doing on all disks (ccd'ed or single) if
> > the whole disk is used as one big filesystem, e.g.:
>
> > 3 partitions:
> > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> > c: 45322644 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 2810*)
> >
> >
> > I didn't have any problems for the last 3 years but if someone tells me that this
> > is bad, danegerous or simply ugly, I will change that :-)
>
> It's bad, dangerous and ugly :-)
OK, the author of vinum will know that :-) As I just said in another mail, I will
use the a partition in future and leave c untouched...
>
> Seriously, you can normally get by this way, but it's confusing
> things, and there's no guarantee that you won't run into trouble in
> the future.
Thanks,
-Andre
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