Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 07:54:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Brad Waite <brad@ssbaptist.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem newfsing vinum volume Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005230753210.29319-100000@hobbes> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005230741450.29319-100000@hobbes>
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Arrrrggggggg! I hit ^X too soon. I meant to add that I'm running 4.0-STABLE. On Tue, 23 May 2000, Brad Waite wrote: > Okay, I finally got my drives installed and partitioned as follows: > > ad0: > a: 7473152 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 465*) > b: 524288 7473152 swap # (Cyl. 465*- 497*) > c: 80035767 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4981*) > e: 72038327 7997440 vinum # (Cyl. 497*- 4981*) > > ad1: > c: 80041248 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > e: 80041248 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > > ad2: > c: 80041248 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > e: 80041248 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > > 4 gigs of ad0 are used for FBSD and swap. The rest of ad0 and all of ad1 & ad2 > are intended for vinum. Since, as I understand it, vinum requires all the > subdisks to be the same size, I split the drives into 3908MB subdisks, 10 sd's > on ad1 & ad2, and 9 on ad0 for a total of 29 subdisks. > > Here's my vinum cfg file: > drive a device /dev/ad0s1e > drive b device /dev/ad1s1e > drive c device /dev/ad2s1e > volume whopper > plex org raid5 512k > sd length 3908m drive a > sd length 3908m drive b > sd length 3908m drive c > [ all 3 lines repeated 8 times ] > sd length 3908m drive b > sd length 3908m drive c > > Now I try to do a newfs: > > # newfs -v /dev/vinum/whopper > newfs: /dev/vinum/whopper: Input/output error > # vinum l whopper > V whopper State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 106 GB > > > Why can't I newfs the volume? > > -Brad > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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