On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 07:50:01AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
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> In this case, wedges show up as logical disks in hw.disknames, so it's
> really that partitions aren't disks.
Indeed, partitions are disks and wedges appear as a disk that doesn't
support partitions.
> > You can avoid this by
Michael van Elst writes:
>> Alternatively, I see that we add wedges to hw.disknames. My system has
>> a NetBSD boot image on a flash drive this minute, and:
>> hw.disknames = wd0 cd0 sd0 dk0 dk1
>> so if we add dk0, which is really no different logically than sd0a, it
>> seems like we should
Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that David Brownlee would write on Sun Aug
13 12:00:14 2023:
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> This reminded me of something I saw a little while back, but neglected
> to report - now filed as
> https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=57583 - I
> think this matches
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 08:22:08PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
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> Given that wd3e is a name for a disk special file with defined size, it
> would seem that we should change that. It seems to make just as much
> sense to probe wd3[a-p] as it does to probe wd3 (which is wd3d).
You can change the
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
> g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes:
>
>>David Brownlee writes:
>>> https://gnats.netbsd.org/57583
>
>>Do you think this is just a bug that it fails to look at wd3e
>>etc. wrongly if there is /dev/zfs?
>
> The code scans all devices in the
g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes:
>David Brownlee writes:
>> https://gnats.netbsd.org/57583
>Do you think this is just a bug that it fails to look at wd3e
>etc. wrongly if there is /dev/zfs?
The code scans all devices in the specified device directory, unless
it's /dev/. Then it uses
David Brownlee writes:
> https://gnats.netbsd.org/57583
Do you think this is just a bug that it fails to look at wd3e
etc. wrongly if there is /dev/zfs?
What is the point of /dev/zfs (is that how zpool/zfs control works?) and
is there any reason this should matter? Do you think this is this
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 22:16, Jay F. Shachter wrote:
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> Esteemed Colleagues:
>
> I have a multiboot computer on which Solaris, Linux, and NetBSD 10
> BETA have all been successfully installed (I couldn't install NetBSD
> 9.3) and they are all sharing storage on a ZFS pool, because all three
> of
Esteemed Colleagues:
I have a multiboot computer on which Solaris, Linux, and NetBSD 10
BETA have all been successfully installed (I couldn't install NetBSD
9.3) and they are all sharing storage on a ZFS pool, because all three
of those operating systems support, or can be make to support, ZFS.
