Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 04:28:22 -0500 From: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> To: FreeBSD-QUESTIONS <FreeBSD-QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: vinum help requested Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003230403260.2914-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Good morning, I have been attempting to make vinum work, as I'm trying to combine the last partition of my first drive, with the entire second drive which is a small 1.5G drive. I have searched the mailing list archives, and have only found one item that even related to this question, I did not find a response to it however. Basically, I have the following configuration: drive wd0 - wd0s1a,wd0s1e,wd0s1f,wd0s1g,wd0s1h drive wd1 - wd1s1e I wish to make wd0s1h (3.4G) combine with wd1s1e (1.5G). If I understood the vinum manual page correctly, what I'm looking to do is a concat setup as opposed to striped which requires both disks to be the same size(?) So I followed the directions on the manual page on setting up a concat system with vinum. The manual page specifies this as an example: # Sample vinum configuration file # # Our drives drive drive1 device /dev/da1h drive drive2 device /dev/da2h drive drive3 device /dev/da3h drive drive4 device /dev/da4h drive drive5 device /dev/da5h drive drive6 device /dev/da6h [ raid, striped, etc examples snipped ] volume concat plex org concat sd length 100m drive drive2 sd length 50m drive drive4 plex org concat sd length 150m drive drive4 This looks like what I need, now from what I read at FreeBSD Diary, I need to disklabel the partitions involved setting them to "vinum" type. Which I did, it looks like this now: [ wd0 ] # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 307200 524288 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 32*- 51*) b: 524288 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 32*) c: 16498692 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1026*) e: 307200 831488 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 51*- 70*) f: 4096000 1138688 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 70*- 325*) g: 4096000 5234688 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 325*- 580*) h: 7168000 9330688 vinum # (Cyl. 580*- 1026*) [ wd1 ] # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 3173121 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 3147*) e: 3173121 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 3147*) So based on the above example vinum.conf, (after calculating the partition sizes as noted on FreeBSD Diary) This is what my vinum.conf looks like: drive d1 device /dev/wd0s1h drive d2 device /dev/wd1s1e volume storage plex org concat sd length 3391m drive d1 sd length 1549m drive d2 Now, to me, that looks perfectly fine based on the example given in the manual page. So I figure I'm going to try to run vinum. Here is what I get from vinum create -f /etc/vinum.conf: root[epsilon]:~# vinum create -f /etc/vinum.conf 1: drive d1 device /dev/wd0s1h ** 1 : Invalid argument 2: drive d2 device /dev/wd1s1e ** 2 : Invalid argument 0 drives: 1 volumes: V storage State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 4940 MB 1 plexes: P storage.p0 C State: faulty Subdisks: 2 Size: 4940 MB 2 subdisks: S storage.p0.s0 State: crashed PO: 0 B Size: 3391 MB S storage.p0.s1 State: crashed PO: 3391 MB Size: 1549 MB dmesg tells me this: vinum: storage.p0.s0 is crashed vinum: storage.p0 is faulty vinum: storage.p0.s1 is crashed Also as pointed out on FreeBSD Diary, check the log files! So I did that, and found absolutely nothing in them. Not a single ounce of vinum info. This is where I become totally lost, I'm at a loss to find a way around this, or to really discover what the real problem is. As always, I thank you in advance for your advice. Regards, Matt -- Matt Heckaman [matt@arpa.mail.net|matt@relic.net] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.21.0003230403260.2914-100000>