On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 07:52, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
We have a production system that runs on a vinum system drive
configured like this:
[[Configuration omitted.]]
It's currently running fine with FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p10.
After upgrading to 5.3-BETA7, buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel
and reboot the system stops:
vinum: loaded
vinum: no drives found
That's it. Of course it complains that it can't mount /dev/vinum/root.
The list of detected GEOM devices at the mountroot prompt
includes ad0s1h, ad1s1h, ad0s1, ad1s1, ad0, ad1 and some more
partitions.
Where do I go from here? Is this expected behaviour due to the ongoing
GEOM changes or should I go read Greg's how to debug vinum problems
document? I will do that, no problem. Just want to know if it makes
sense at all, because now everyone might tell me vinum is known broken in
5.3 or similar.
Vinum is known broken in 5.3. :-) You should be using geom_vinum
instead. It will largely be a drop-in replacement for your above Vinum
configuration. (I am using it on a similar root-on-vinum setup.) The
main changes are these:
1) Load geom_vinum in /boot/loader.conf, e.g., add
'geom_vinum_load=YES' to /boot/loader.conf. This will auto-detect
your Vinum on-disk configuration during boot. You don't need any
rc.conf glue with geom_vinum.
2) Change vinum to gvinum in /etc/fstab. E.g., use
/dev/gvinum/root instead of /dev/vinum/root
3) The userland utility is gvinum instead of vinum.
I am using geom_vinum on a root-on-vinum configuration under 6-CURRENT
since before RELENG_5 was branched, and I believe the same holds true
for RELENG_5 and HEAD as far as the above three points are concerned.
I don't know if there are plans to replace vinum entirely with gvinum
(and drop the g prefix) for 5.3-RELEASE. Lukas Ertl would know.
Cheers,
Paul.
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