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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:02:56 +0100
From:      Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   vinum - How long does it take to perform operation X?
Message-ID:  <38075030.7F681CE8@csl.com>

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3.3-STABLE (as per a cvsup and update from 14 October).

Just starting out with vinum, I've read vinum(4) and vinum(8).

I'm trying to create a mirrored volume of 2 x 9GB drives.

These drives are /dev/da1s1e and /dev/da2s1e, and are
pristine, newfs'd volumes. I don't mount them on boot either,
as I quickly discovered vinum dumps core if you try to
operate on mount devices.

Looking at vinum(8), in "HOW TO SET UP VINUM" section 2, I
created a config file /etc/vinum.cf containing

drive d1 device /dev/da2e
drive d2 device /dev/da3e
 volume mirror
   plex org concat
      sd length 10m drive d1
   plex org concat
      sd length 10m drive d2

The 10m is just to avoid waiting an age to find out what happens.

I do

bash 2.03# vinum create -v /etc/vinum.cf
   1: drive d1 device /dev/da2e

Well, after about 30 minutes, I ^C'd this as nothing more
had happened. I decided to clear out any cruft with

bash 2.03# vinum resetconfig

Enter Text -> NO FUTURE

and it's been over an hour and the command doesn't seem to have
completed.

What's happening? I don't understand why this is taking so long.
I'm becoming confused!

Thanks for any help,
Adam.


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