Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Patrick Useldinger wrote: I am currently experimenting with ccd(4) and although it appears to work, I am uncomfortable with one point. I have configured 2 partitions as a JBOD (interleave 0). However, the first of these partitions is partition 'a' of one disk. So the

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread christian widmer
On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:02, Patrick Useldinger wrote: I am currently experimenting with ccd(4) and although it appears to work, I am uncomfortable with one point. I have configured 2 partitions as a JBOD (interleave 0). However, the first of these partitions is partition 'a' of one disk.

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:14:00PM +0100, christian widmer wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:02, Patrick Useldinger wrote: I am currently experimenting with ccd(4) and although it appears to work, I am uncomfortable with one point. I have configured 2 partitions as a JBOD (interleave

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread christian widmer
On Sunday 28 January 2007 15:19, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:14:00PM +0100, christian widmer wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:02, Patrick Useldinger wrote: I am currently experimenting with ccd(4) and although it appears to work, I am uncomfortable with one

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Otto Moerbeek wrote: I read through the mailing list archives and found a thread explaining that the disklabel is stored around the beginning of partition 'a' and that one should allocate a small partition 'a' which should not be made part of the JBOD. I think you misread. It's enough to make

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Patrick Useldinger wrote: Otto Moerbeek wrote: I read through the mailing list archives and found a thread explaining that the disklabel is stored around the beginning of partition 'a' and that one should allocate a small partition 'a' which should not be made

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Otto Moerbeek wrote: How are we supposed to help if you omit all relevant info? dmesg, disklabels, fdisk info... A good start would be to read my post, all the information is there. Except for dmesg, which is not useful in this case. -pu

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Patrick Useldinger
christian widmer wrote: man ccd: Note that the `raw' partitions of the disks should not be combined. Each component partition should be offset at least one cylinder from the beginning of the component disk. What is a raw partition in that case? In the examples I found, the members of the

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Tony Abernethy
Patrick Useldinger wrote: Does the name really matter? Yes. Whether your partition is called 'a' or 'd', doesn't the disklabel get stored into the beginning of the first partition anyway? No. Actually, you have 16 partitions stored in the disklabel. This is OpenBSD not DOS.

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Tony Abernethy
Patrick Useldinger wrote: Otto Moerbeek wrote: I read through the mailing list archives and found a thread explaining that the disklabel is stored around the beginning of partition 'a' and that one should allocate a small partition 'a' which should not be made part of the JBOD.

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Patrick Useldinger wrote: Otto Moerbeek wrote: How are we supposed to help if you omit all relevant info? dmesg, disklabels, fdisk info... A good start would be to read my post, all the information is there. Except for dmesg, which is not useful in this case. 1. I

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Nick Holland
Patrick Useldinger wrote: Otto Moerbeek wrote: How are we supposed to help if you omit all relevant info? dmesg, disklabels, fdisk info... A good start would be to read my post, all the information is there. Except for dmesg, which is not useful in this case. -pu Bullshit. You ask for

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread chefren
On 1/28/07 11:09 PM, Patrick Useldinger wrote: Guys, this is all turning to complete bullshit, and it's not only my fault. If anyone actually cared reading my post, my question was simple: == where is the disklabel stored, and what is its size? == If you don't know the answer you don't know

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:09:17PM +0100, Patrick Useldinger wrote: Guys, this is all turning to complete bullshit, and it's not only my fault. If anyone actually cared reading my post, my question was simple: == where is the disklabel stored, and what is its size? == Being that I'm a ccd

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Patrick Useldinger wrote: Guys, this is all turning to complete bullshit, and it's not only my fault. If anyone actually cared reading my post, my question was simple: == where is the disklabel stored, and what is its size? == Strange that nobody distilled that form

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/01/28 23:09, Patrick Useldinger wrote: == where is the disklabel stored, and what is its size? == The question was generic, and I wanted a generic answer. There isn't a generic answer, this OS runs on 17 supported platforms and it varies. On some of them, disklabel -v -r disk will tell

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread christian widmer
On Sunday 28 January 2007 17:47, Patrick Useldinger wrote: christian widmer wrote: man ccd: Note that the `raw' partitions of the disks should not be combined. Each component partition should be offset at least one cylinder from the beginning of the component disk. What is a raw