From sam@ada.eu.org Sat Apr 8 03:24:49 2000 Return-Path: Received: from ada.eu.org (marvin.enst.fr [137.194.161.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F2037B8DA for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 03:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@ada.eu.org) Received: from antinea.enst.fr (antinea.enst.fr [137.194.160.145]) by ada.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EFC819076 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:24:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by antinea.enst.fr (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8C809504; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <20000408102446.8C809504@antinea.enst.fr> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:24:46 +0200 (CEST) From: sam@ada.eu.org Reply-To: sam@ada.eu.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: vnode devices reject disklabels X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 17859 >Category: kern >Synopsis: vnode devices reject disklabels >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Apr 8 03:30:01 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: Sat Apr 8 04:06:39 PDT 2000 >Last-Modified: Sat Apr 8 04:06:55 PDT 2000 >Originator: Samuel Tardieu >Release: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 >Organization: TELECOM Paris >Environment: >Description: It looks like despites what the manpage reads, it is not possible to make a disklabel on a vnode device, either with a specified or with an automatic type. >How-To-Repeat: % dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/floppy bs=1k count=1440 % vnconfig -c /dev/vn0 /var/tmp/floppy % disklabel -w vn0 auto disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device disklabel: auto: unknown disk type % disklabel -w -r /dev/vn0 fd1440 disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Inappropriate ioctl for device The manpage for disklabel says that auto is fine with vnode devices, which is obviously not the case. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: Poul-Henning Kamp To: sam@ada.eu.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/17859: vnode devices reject disklabels Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:33:31 +0200 Read the vnconfig manpages. VN devices have two modes: with or without disklabels. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequatly be explained by incompetence. State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: phk State-Changed-When: Sat Apr 8 04:06:39 PDT 2000 State-Changed-Why: resolved. >Unformatted: