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.
If no file name is specified, create one and edit it with the editor
specified in the EDITOR environment variable, by default vi.
vinum_help:
Update.
Fix typos in messages.
has been done. This name can be overridden by the value of the
VINUM_HISTORY environment variable.
Print dates in log file according to the variable VINUM_DATEFORMAT, by
default %e %b %Y %H:%M:%S.
list functions. Previously, it would produce a non-verbose listing of
the objects followed individually by a statistics listing. Now it
produces only a one-line-per-object statistics listing.
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'.
subdisks in need of revival.
vinum_stop: sleep for a second before unloading. This solves a race
condition with a potential daemon when the stop command
is specified on the command line.
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
Semantics:
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>
the debug superdevice when we're compiled without debug, or the normal
superdevice when we're compiled with debug. If this succeeds, print
an informative comment and exit.
make_devices: Create both debug and normal superdevices.
Wait4 zombies.
make_devices: Don't try if the /dev directory is mounted read-only.
Create daemon superdevice /dev/vinum/controld.
Format a couple of multiline comments conformant with style(9).
for us.
Rebuild the (almost empty) /dev/vinum directory.
vinum_start: remove superflous "read" parameter when starting with no
parameters.
vinum_stop: without an argument, stop Vinum and remove the kld if
it's idle.
vinum_saveconfig: New command to save configuration.
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.
the wrong module can cause confusion, including loading both versions
(which conflict with each other) and incorrect ioctls, which cause
unintelligible error messages.
Extend 'start' command: if used without any parameters, vinum scans
all disks known to devstat for vinum drives and reads their
configuration.
- 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
