From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 17:59:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B9B37B402 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 141467831E; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:29:12 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:29:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Borkowsky Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using VINUM to do RAID-1 disk mirroring Message-ID: <20020314122912.E11940@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020313101954.D39272@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 13 March 2002 at 10:16:00 -0500, Jason Borkowsky wrote: > >> No, this is wrong. You shouldn't have more than one drive per >> spindle. You need something like this: >> >> /dev/ad0: >> >> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] >> b: 4194304 0 swap # (Cyl. 207*- 468*) >> c: 80405262 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 5004*) >> e: 76210958 4194304 vinum 2048 16384 90 # (Cyl. 12*- 76*) > > OKay, I think I see the source of the error of my ways: I currently have my > filesystem up and running as a FreeBSD 4.2 filesystem, with 6 partitions, > and was looking to convert it to a vinum file system. What I would actually > need to do would be create a new vinum filesystem, and then create all of my > partitions (or, in this case, sib-partitions) on the vinum partition. Does > that sound right? Yes, that's the simple answer. There's a more complicated one which will allow you to mirror most existing partitions. You should find it in the mail archives, but I don't have time to dig for it right now. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message