Re: Problems with geom_bde

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 09/30/03

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    To: Thorsten Greiner <thorsten.greiner@web.de>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:57:31 +0200

    In message <20030930205400.GA4391@tybalt.greiner.local>, Thorsten Greiner writes:
    >* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> [2003-09-30 10:54]:
    >> Did you call "gbde detach" before the umount ? You need to unmount
    >> first.
    >
    >After investigating further I think I have found the reason for the
    >problem. When I created the disklabel for the partition I was lazy
    >and entered a size of 2000000 blocks for the slice. I just tried to
    >reproduce the problem and re-created the slice with a size of 1024M
    >(which is 2097152 blocks) and the problem seems to have disappeared
    >- at least I cannot reproduce it anymore.
    >
    >So now I wonder if there is any magic constant which the slice size
    >needs to be a multiple of...?

    Not that I know off. 

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