Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Stuart Henderson:
> --On 07 June 2005 11:48 -0400, Michael Shalayeff wrote:
>
> > Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Stuart Henderson:
> >> --On 23 May 2005 23:25 +0100, I wrote:
> >>
> >> > Can anyone suggest what's going wrong with this attempt at setting
> >> > up a ccd mirror on sparc64 (t1 105)? Making any changes to the
> >> > disklabel (with -e or -E) results in ccd0's disk information
> >> > changing, e.g.:
> >>
> >> I've just been looking at this again - for the benefit of the
> >> archives, the workaround is to write filesystems directly onto the
> >> 'c' partition, and use one ccd device per partition. This doesn't
> >> seem to be necessary for i386.
> >
> > it works just fine on sparc64.
> > that's my debugging setup for ccd.
> > works just fine on any partition as well.
> > when you edit disklabel you might need to reboot.
> > it's smth obscure in the way disklabel is handled
> > (sun-compatible) on the platform.
>
> Thanks Mickey, but experimenting after reading this, it doesn't quite
> clear everything up for me. Using 'disklabel -E',
> cylinders/sectors/free sectors are wrong until:
all you need is free sectors _once_ to be right.
you make your disklabel and then you forget about it.
is it some kind of perversion to edit disklabel every day?
cu
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paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)
