From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 25 2:16:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1745153E9 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 02:16:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA01699; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:45:49 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id UAA43397; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:45:47 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990325204547.Z425@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:45:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Charlie ROOT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting up 2 drive vinum References: <19990319111346.F429@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Charlie ROOT on Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 12:01:31PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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