On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:21:53AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 November 2003 at 22:54:29 +0100, TeCeEm@gmx.de wrote:
> >> On Wednesday, 12 November 2003 at  5:56:34 +0100, TeCeEm@gmx.de wrote:
> >>> # ls -l /dev/vinum/
> >>> total 14
> >>> crw-------  1 root  wheel  108, 262142 Nov 12 05:30 control
> >>
> >> Hmm.  This looks like a victim of the change of major device number.
> >> Vinum now has major number 162.  Try rm -rf /dev/vinum and see if it
> >> works like that.
> >
> > Ok, I figure these numbers are defined somewhere else than /sys/dev/vinum or
> > /sys/sbin/vinum and my kernel being out of sync to the userland is an issue
> > here.
> 
> Yes, that's the problem.  You'll need to rebuild vinum(8).

Why does the vinum executable have special knowledge of the device *number*
for Vinum, rather than using filesystem naming?  That seems like a severe 
bug.

Thor