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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:41:40 +0100
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vinum questions?
Message-ID:  <19990312144140.011407@relay.skynet.be>
In-Reply-To: <19990312133024.005687@relay.skynet.be>

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On Fri, Mar 12, 1999, Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> 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
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