Vinum dumpconfig returns nothing ?!?

From: Vincent Rioux (vrioux_at_centrenad.com)
Date: 02/13/04

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    Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:43:45 -0500 (EST)
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org

    Hello,

    I am trying to setup a software raid5 volume using Vinum on FreeBSD 5.2.
    So far I did successfully complete these tasks :

    - Created the config file :
    drive d0 device /dev/ad10
    drive d1 device /dev/ad11
    drive d2 device /dev/ad4
    drive d3 device /dev/ad6
    drive d4 device /dev/ad8
    drive d5 device /dev/ad9
    volume terabyte
      plex org raid5 433k
        sd length 0 drive d0
        sd length 0 drive d1
        sd length 0 drive d2
        sd length 0 drive d3
        sd length 0 drive d4
        sd length 0 drive d5

    - Created the volume in Vinum and initialized it (whoa it took a long
    time!) :
    vinum -> list
    6 drives:
    D d0 State: up /dev/ad10 A: 0/194481 MB (0%)
    D d1 State: up /dev/ad11 A: 0/194481 MB (0%)
    D d2 State: up /dev/ad4 A: 0/194481 MB (0%)
    D d3 State: up /dev/ad6 A: 0/194481 MB (0%)
    D d4 State: up /dev/ad8 A: 0/194481 MB (0%)
    D d5 State: up /dev/ad9 A: 0/194481 MB (0%)

    1 volumes:
    V terabyte State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 949 GB

    1 plexes:
    P terabyte.p0 R5 State: up Subdisks: 6 Size: 949 GB

    6 subdisks:
    S terabyte.p0.s0 State: up D: d0 Size: 189 GB
    S terabyte.p0.s1 State: up D: d1 Size: 189 GB
    S terabyte.p0.s2 State: up D: d2 Size: 189 GB
    S terabyte.p0.s3 State: up D: d3 Size: 189 GB
    S terabyte.p0.s4 State: up D: d4 Size: 189 GB
    S terabyte.p0.s5 State: up D: d5 Size: 189 GB

    Now the problem is that everytime I reboot the machine to test if the
    volume automounts correctly (yes, start_vinum="YES" is in rc.conf), all
    the configuration is lost and I must recreate and reinitialize the volume
    (effectively losing all my data)...

    Now what's weird, just after setting everything up and finishing
    initializing the volume, I just can't seem to be able to dump the config
    from the disks! Even if I do a saveconfig (which I shouldn't have to do
    since config. updates are not disabled), there's nothing returned from
    dumpconfig! :
    vinum -> saveconfig
    vinum -> dumpconfig
    vinum ->

    I had the exact same problem with FreeBSD-5.1 ... I tought Vinum might be
    broken and since the machine is a fresh install, I decided to reinstall
    from 5.2... Same problem! :(

    Any ideas ?

    Vincent

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