From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 5:42:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E3E14C28; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 05:42:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with SMTP id OAA03088; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:41:49 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <19990312133024.005687@relay.skynet.be> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 2.3.1 X-URL: http://www.skynet.be x-sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:41:40 +0100 To: Brad Knowles , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Vinum questions? Message-Id: <19990312144140.011407@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 12, 1999, Brad Knowles wrote: > Anyway, the one hurdle I'm trying to get over at the moment is that >vinum thinks that the devices /dev/da1c through /dev/da9c do not exist >(they do -- I created them with MAKEDEV), and therefore it refuses to >start the disks d1 through d9. Without those disks, of course neither of >the two plexes start up, and of course the volume fails to start as well. Well, my vinum configuration was confused enough that I blew it completely away, then made the mistake of trying to recreate it without rebooting first (against the warnings that I recall running across somewhere). Nice little kernel panic there. At least the 60GB of anonymous ftp disk space wasn't available yet, otherwise the fsck would have taken quite some time. ;-) Anyway, here's a sample error that I get now that I've tried to recreate it again: >vinum -> ld -v >Drive drive1: Device /dev/da1c > Created on at Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970 > Config last updated Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970 > Size: 0 bytes (0 MB) > Used: 0 bytes (0 MB) > Available: 0 bytes (0 MB) > State: down > Last error: Invalid argument All devices /dev/da1c through /dev/da9c exist (and so far as I know are valid), and I can pull disklabels off these devices (although I seem to be unable to write disklabels, so I can't add a partition other than "c" that I could use with vinum). Any hints? Maybe the problem is with being unable to disklabel the drives? Perhaps someone could give me some pointers on how I might be able to successfully force that to happen? Oh, and ssh installed very cleanly, so I don't have to re-type anymore. ;-) Finally, while we're at it, I don't suppose anyone has any experience with running a softupdates filesystem on top of a vinum striped/concatenated volume, do you? Am I dreaming in hoping that I'll be able to get these two working together? -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News/mail/FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ The Sky is no longer the limit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message