Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 13:06:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: keith@telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum HOWTO Message-ID: <20001007130652.B28501@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010060701230.15559-100000@mail.telestream.com>; from keith@telestream.com on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 08:07:16AM -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010060701230.15559-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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On Friday, 6 October 2000 at 8:07:16 -0700, keith@telestream.com wrote: > Is there a vinum HOWTO somewhere? Try http://www.vinumvm.org/ > I've read through it all in "The Complete FreeBSD 3rd edition" but > it all seems so non-intuitive to my way of thinking and I'm puzzled > to no end now. I'm sure I am missing a step someplace. All I've done > so far is install two new 4.5Gig scsi drives. Gone into sysinstall > and ran the disk label and slice editor on each of the drives then > ran vinum. > Here is what I enter into vinum > > vinum -> create > > #Then I enter this into the vi session. > > drive a device /dev/da0s1e > drive b device /dev/da1s1e > volume stripe > plex org striped 512k > sd length 4300m drive a > sd length 4300m drive b Well, the only thing I could fault there would be the stripe size. You're better off with a stripe size which is not a power of 2; this spreads the super blocks more evenly. > When I write quite the vi session this is what vinum says. > > > 3: drive a device /dev/da0s1e > ** 3 : Invalid argument > 4: drive b device /dev/da1s1e > ** 4 : Invalid argument > 0 drives: > 1 volumes: > V stripe State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 8600 MB > > 1 plexes: > P stripe.p0 S State: faulty Subdisks: 2 Size: 8600 MB > > 2 subdisks: > S stripe.p0.s0 State: crashed PO: 0 B Size: 4300 MB > S stripe.p0.s1 State: crashed PO: 512 kB Size: 4300 MB > vinum -> Well, it would help if you said which version of FreeBSD you're running (and possibly some of the other stuff requested at http://www.vinumvm.org/), but I'd guess either you didn't have any device nodes for these partitions, or they're not of type Vinum. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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