vinum_mirror, vinum_raid4, vinum_raid5.
Correct typos.
Show new output of the 'list' and 'ls' commands.
Update examples to use 279 kB stripe sizes instead of 256 kB.
Clarify some text.
Remove the description of the 'invalid ioctl' messages which now no
longer occur.
Add a description of the 'retryerrors' keyword.
userland tool:
Use the vfs.devfs.generation sysctl to test for devfs presense
(thanks phk!) when devfs is active it will not try to create the
device nodes in /dev and therefore will not complain about the
failure to do so.
Revert the change in the #define for VINUM_DIR in the kernel
header so that vinum can find its device nodes.
Replace perror() with vinum_perror() to print file/line when
DEVBUG is defined (not defined by default).
kernel:
Don't use the #define names for the "superdev" creation since
they will be prepended by "/dev/" (based on VINUM_DIR), instead
use string constants.
Create both debug and non-debug "superdev" nodes in the devfs.
Problem noticed and fix tested by: Martin Blapp <mblapp@fuchur.lan.attic.ch>
directly off the drives.
This command shows a minor problem: it requires that the device nodes
exist, whereas kernel Vinum does not. Thus dumpconfig may show no
configuration for certain drives which are up and happily running.
This is documented in the man page.
Describe -i option for start.
Update description of start command (will now work on plexes).
Update discussion of choice of stripe size (don't use power of 2).
Remove references to raw devices.
Describe stop -f to stop when config updates are disabled.
Explain in more detail why Vinum needs its own partition type, and why
you can't make it the c partition.
Implicitly-sanctioned-by: jkh
entries go into the config file.
Clarify what names can be used for Vinum drives, and what will happen
to you if you use other names.
Forcibly-demonstrated-by: Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com>
Peter K Campbell <PCampbel@vtrlmel1.telstra.com.au>
George Cox <george.cox@sophos.com>
many others, but those were the only three today.
Describe new scale letter for sizes: 's' (sector) instead of 'b'
(block). Both mean 512 bytes, but 'b' is deprecated because it's
confusing.
Document log file and environment variables.
Remove comments about not being able to unload from the command line.
Add another example configuration output.
Clarify when to use 'vinum start' and when to use 'vinum read'.
When creating a new drive, if the drive already has a vinum label,
and name doesn't match the specified drive, do it anyway if the
'force' flag is specified.
Continually-tripped-over-by: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Update information about partition type for Vinum drives. They
*should* be of type 'vinum', but currently we still accept (and
complain about) partitions of type 'unused'. At a later date, only
'vinum' will be accepted.
Threatened-since: over a year
256 kB instead of 16 kB.
Pointed-out-by: Steve Taylor <staylor@cybernet.com>
Modify description of start command to include 'start' with no
parameters, which reads the config from all drives found on the
system.
- Comment out the description of the unimplemented replace command
- Explain in even stronger language that resetconfig is not for
everyday use
Motivated by: Marko Schütz <marko@ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>
- Correct the description of the start command (no longer used to
start vinum, just specific objects)
Motivated by: dg
- Remove .TH N commands, which conflict badly with the doc macros,
causing strange headings in nroff output and endless loops in troff.
The current version produces warning messages with some screen
sizes, and will be fixed when I have time.
Bug-report: docs/9328 (nroff)
Reported-by: joerg (troff)
- Add gotcha info for the setupstate keyword and the use of label and
resetconfig.
- Add bug entry for the warning messages introduced by fixing
docs/9328.
- Add references to web pages on Vinum
- Describe subdisk attachment in more detail
- Describe new 'makedev' command
- Correct use of 'partition' and 'slice'
- Describe 'setupstate' keyword
- Include performance guidelines for striped plexes
- Correct numerical values in examples
- Add examples for disklabel(8)
- Clarify problems creating Vinum drives on inappropriate partitions
Prodded by: NAGANUMA Yasuhiro <y_naga@carat.rim.or.jp> (slices and
partitions)
