On 2004.10.11 10:43:02 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > Overlong lines. > > On Sunday, 10 October 2004 at 19:23:24 +0200, Mark Frasa wrote: > > Hello, > > > > After installing FreeBSD 5.2.1, because 4.10 and even 5.1 did not > > reconized mij SATA controller, i CVS-upped and upgraded to 5.2.1-p11 > > RELEASE > > > > After that I configured Vinum to mirror (RAID 1) 2 80G Maxtor SATA > > disks. > > > > The error i am getting is: > > > > swapon /dev/vinum/swap > swapon: /dev/vinum/swap: Operation not > > supported by device > > > > I have taken notice of this message: > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [missing attribution to Greg Lehey] > >> On Sunday, 28 December 2003 at 20:00:04 -0800, Micheas Herman wrote: > >>> This may belong on current,> I upgraded to 5.2 from 5.1 and my > >>> kernel (GENERIC) now refuses to use /dev/vinum/swap as my swap > >>> device.>> # swapon /dev/vinum/swap> swapon: /dev/vinum/swap: > >>> Operation not supported by device> # Is this a 5.2 bug or do I have > >>> vinum incorrectly configured? > >> > >> This is a 5.2 bug. It was last mentioned here a day or two ago, and > >> I'm currently chasing it. > > > > Since this is a message from the 28th of December 2003 , can anyone > > tell me when this issue will be solved? Otherwise i have to > > consider buying PATA disks which allows me to run 4.10 again. > > Vinum is being rewritten; the new one is called gvinum or geom_vinum. > It handles swap, and it should be in 5.3. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
Does the vinum in FreeBSD 4.10 has the same problem? If not i might consider to buy PATA disks and run software raid because i rather use 4.10 then 5.3. Mark.
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