Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:56:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Adam Nealis <adamn@csl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vinum - How long does it take to perform operation X? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910191452270.22033-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <380CACC2.2800B9CF@csl.com>
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Adam Nealis wrote: > Sorry to take so long to get back. Been busy with other things. > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Adam Nealis wrote: > > > > > 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, > > > > ^^^^^^ > > > > huh? shouldn't the partition type be set to 'vinum' like in > > the vinum manpage? > Is that vinum(4) or vinum(8)? I can't see anything that mentions > /sbin/mount in either of these man pages. > > As an experiment, I tried changing their type to vinum in /etc/fstab, > but mount complained that it couldn't find mount_vinum. I can't > seem to find the source in /usr/src either. > > /etc/fstab: > > /dev/da1s1e /mnt/mirror0 vinum rw 2 2 > /dev/da2s1e /mnt/mirror2 vinum rw 2 2 > > This is on a 3.3-STABLE box, based on a cvsup and make world > done on 14th October. > > Am I missing something obvious? Yes, the disklabel type should be vinum. You seem to have totally misinterpreted the vinum man page. Vinum will create a device for you in /dev/vinum such as /dev/vinum/vinum0 that you can mount, you do NOT mount the seperate partitions like that. hope this helps. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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