vinum does not remember config across boots

[David Kelly]

Mentioned in the past week or so that I have two 160G SATA drives with 
one slice each, each slice has 1G reserved (not currently used) for 
swap, the remainder s1d is for vinum. The two are striped with "vinum 
stripe -v /dev/ad4s1d /dev/ad6s1d".

At boot vinum often does not remember these drives should be striped. 
Booting (usually, but not always as sometimes vinum works) drops me 
into single user where I have to manually run the above vinum command 
again which finally creates /dev/vinum/vinum0. At that point my fs will 
mount cleanly. I don't believe the config is being written to the disks 
and not sure that I'm not the one doing something wrong:

dkelly at Opus [72] uname -a
FreeBSD Opus.home 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #1: Mon Aug 
  9 14:42:06 CDT 2004     dkelly at Opus.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OPUS  
i386
dkelly at Opus [73] vinum list
2 drives:
D vinumdrive1           State: up       /dev/ad6s1d     A: 0/156041 MB 
(0%)
D vinumdrive0           State: up       /dev/ad4s1d     A: 0/156041 MB 
(0%)

1 volumes:
V vinum0                State: up       Plexes:       1 Size:        
304 GB

1 plexes:
P vinum0.p0           S State: up       Subdisks:     2 Size:        
304 GB

2 subdisks:
S vinum0.p0.s0          State: up       D: vinumdrive0  Size:        
152 GB
S vinum0.p0.s1          State: up       D: vinumdrive1  Size:        
152 GB
dkelly at Opus [74] vinum saveconfig
dkelly at Opus [75] vinum setdaemon
Options mask: 0
dkelly at Opus [76] vinum dumpconfig
dkelly at Opus [77]

If I'm not mistaken "dumpconfig" should have produced results similar 
to "list" but while "list" displays running information from kernel 
space, "dumpconfig" should go direct to the media for its answer? And 
dumpconfig is finding nothing?

Have tried putting vinum_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf in addition to 
start_vinum="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. Vinum_load only seems to cause the 
rc scripts to say, "vinum already loaded" or similar.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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