Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 09:42:08 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: Scott Worthington <SWorthington@hsag.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum question on 3.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <37D61350.EB480D0B@alcatel.fr> References: <s7d51f19.010@internal.hsag.com>
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Hello, You MUST NOT use the "c" partition, which is reserved for accessing the whole disk (DOS partition in this case) Just create two da0s3h and da1s1h and all will be well (don't forget to give them the "vinum" type, when in the disklabel editor (they must not stay "unused") TfH Scott Worthington wrote: > > I'm attempting to successfully create a mirrored > volume on two SCSI drives. > > The mirrored plexes are on /dev/da0s3c and > /dev/da1s1c. Both are of type 'vinum'. > > I can successfully 1) create, 2) start the mirror plex, > 3) create the newfs, 4) mount the file system, > 5) copy files into the fs. But when I reboot, > vinum reports that ** no drives found... > > If I run vinum and do the create command and > read my configuration file, I can then remount > the volume manually. > > This is FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE from CD-ROM. > > Here's the steps that I have performed to create > a mirrored volume: > > 1) Using disklabel, created a vinum partition on > /dev/da0s3c and /dev/da1s1c > BTW: These partitions are ~3400M > 2) Created the file: vinum.conf in the /root directory > which contains: > drive drive1 device /dev/da0s3c > drive drive2 device /dev/da1s1c > volume mirror > plex org concat > sd length 3300m drive drive1 > plex org concat > sd length 3300m drive drive2 > 3) Loaded 'vinum' > 4) Typed 'create -f vinum.conf' > 5) To start the mirrored plex 1: 'start mirror.p1' > The plex remains in initializing until you start it. > 6) Exited out of vinum: 'quit' > 7) Created the newfs: 'newfs -v /dev/vinum/rmirror' > Note: the newfs is created on the raw device > 8) Mounted the newfs: 'mount /dev/vinum/mirror /mnt' > 9) Copied some 'stuff' for testing: 'cp /sbin/* .' > 10) Ensured that vinum was loaded at boot time by > editing /boot/loader.conf and adding the line: > vinum_load="YES" > 11) Edited the /etc/rc.conf to ensure that vinum > new which drives were for it: > vinum_drives="/dev/da0s3c /dev/da1s1c" > 12) Reboot and then vinum complains that > '** no drives found: No such file or directory' > > I've looked into the /dev/vinum/drive directory > and everything looks okay. > > I know that I'm just not holding my tongue just right. > > Anyone have an insight? This how-to needs > a little tweek and it should work. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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