Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 12:32:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: LART <lart@mfn.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum & ad driver Message-ID: <20000806123245.D69570@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <026601bfff45$595915a0$c991f280@mfn.org>; from lart@mfn.org on Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:26:29PM -0500 References: <026601bfff45$595915a0$c991f280@mfn.org>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Please limit the line length of your text to < 80 characters. Please leave computer generated messages the way they were. On Saturday, 5 August 2000 at 20:26:29 -0500, LART wrote: > Greetings, > > We are trying to set up vinum, and would like to use the "ad" > driver (we would like to see a striped array for our (6) 60gb ide > drives). > Experimental configs like: > > drive a device /dev/ad2s1 > drive b device /dev/ad3s1 This should be a partition, not a slice. From the man page: Where to put the data The first choice you need to make is where to put the data. You need dedicated disk partitions for vinum. They should be partitions, not de- vices, and they should not be partition c. For example, good names are /dev/da0e or /dev/wd3s4a. Bad names are /dev/da0 and /dev/da0s1, both of which represent a device, not a partition, and /dev/wd1c, which repre- sents a complete disk and should be of type unused. See the example under DRIVE LAYOUT CONSIDERATIONS above. > volume newsspool > plex org striped 128k > sd length 60000m drive a > sd length 60000m drive b > ... > > always return "*** n : Invalid argument" on the "drive" lines of > the config. we have tried substituting /dev/ad2, /dev/ad2s1e, > /dev/ad2e, etc., with the same results. > > Please say this isn't restricted to "da" drives :-) This isn't restricted to da drives. This is pilot error. Have you read the section HOW TO SET UP VINUM in the man page? If you have any trouble with it, please let me know. You may also like to check out http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key 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
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