Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:45:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Charlie ROOT <root@sarvik.aripaev.ee> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up 2 drive vinum Message-ID: <19990325204547.Z425@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903251152120.31990-100000@sarvik.aripaev.ee>; from Charlie ROOT on Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 12:01:31PM %2B0200 References: <19990319111346.F429@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903251152120.31990-100000@sarvik.aripaev.ee>
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On Thursday, 25 March 1999 at 12:01:31 +0200, Charlie ROOT wrote: > 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... You did something wrong. >>> 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. No, you don't need to do that with the latest version. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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