On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Ian Dowse wrote:

> >The divide by zero problem seems to be caused by an interaction
> >between two bugs: GEOM refuses to return the sector size because
> ...
> >The next failure I get is:
> >
> >     Can't write config to /dev/da1s1d, error 45 (EOPNOTSUPP)
> 
> This turns out to be vinum doing a DIOCWLABEL to make the label writable
> before writing its configuration, but GEOM does not support that ioctl I
> presume. It should be safe to ignore these DIOCWLABEL ioctl return
> values as the actual writing of the vinum data should give a suitable
> error if making the label writable fails and is important. The patch
> below is Robert's patch with all 3 other issues fixed, and together,
> this seems to be enough to make vinum work again. 

Ok -- I went ahead and booted and ran the merged patch on my testbox, and
Vinum is up and running fine with GEOM.  I think we're set to commit -- do
you want to, or shall I?

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
[EMAIL PROTECTED]      Network Associates Laboratories



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