From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 01:30:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C952416A4BF for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 01:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA4C44003 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 01:30:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB2D2BD34 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 18:30:10 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9DDB251836; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 18:00:07 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 18:00:07 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: aarong Message-ID: <20031004083007.GF45668@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HqT/R3Rz35fLyCbr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues mirroring drives with Vinum in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 08:30:15 -0000 --HqT/R3Rz35fLyCbr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output unwrapped. On Saturday, 4 October 2003 at 0:17:44 -0700, aarong wrote: > I've successfully installed and converted a FreeBSD 4.8 install into a > bootable Vinum volume many times; however mirroring that volume onto a > second identical drive is proving difficult. Per Greg Lehey's > instructions in chapter 12 of "The Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition", I've > setup a bootable Vinum volume and then attempted to mirror it by > creating a second Vinum config file, detailing the second drive and how > the new volumes should be setup. > > This works fine, and Vinum will successfully complete mirroring the all > the volumes, however fsck will fail everytime. Hence when rebooting, > everything goes to hell and a hand basket. I can fsck the volumes > before mirroring without a problem, it's only after Vinum completes > mirroring the volumes that fsck complains. I'd like to see the complaints. This is why I ask for the information in the man page or at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. > disklabel da0s1: > ... > disklabel da1s1: These look OK. > /vinum.config: I specifically ask not to send this. I can't see anything wrong in it. > vinum create /vinum.config > vinum start root.p1 > vinum start var.p1 > vinum start swap.p1 > vinum start usr.p1 That looks OK. > Obviously I'm missing a vital step here but I'm completely at a loss > as to what it may be. Send the information I ask for and I might find it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. NOTE: Due to the currently active Microsoft-based worms, I am limiting all incoming mail to 131,072 bytes. This is enough for normal mail, but not for large attachments. Please send these as URLs. --HqT/R3Rz35fLyCbr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/foUPIubykFB6QiMRAmUDAJ9/uMlKRIvAf4LXx1/2Q4Q8qREeFQCghkXR qMerTd+ir/5T6JV6zJicbRk= =d0/8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HqT/R3Rz35fLyCbr--