From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 25 2:10:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sarvik.aripaev.ee (sarvik.aripaev.ee [194.204.12.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F68714E9A for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 02:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@sarvik.aripaev.ee) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by sarvik.aripaev.ee (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA32023; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:01:31 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from root@sarvik.aripaev.ee) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:01:31 +0200 (EET) From: Charlie ROOT To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up 2 drive vinum In-Reply-To: <19990319111346.F429@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > How do I set up striped vinum drive from /dev/da1 & /dev/da2 ??? > > You could start by reading the manual pages. If there's anything > unclear there, tell us about it and I'll explain. I read them, made 2 volumes, both consisting of 1 plex and 2 subdisks. Newfs'ed it, copied some data, added to /etc/fstab, added drives to /etc/rc.conf... rebooted and ... "vinum: no drives found" So I tried one more time with same results... > > Is there any advantage over CCD ? > > Yes. It's described in the manual pages. Advantages seem to become obvious with more than 2 drives, but I saw one disadvantage - I could not just use the whole drive, but have to explicitly state how many megs the subdisk has. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message