From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 9:55:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A1B37BC0A for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 09:55:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e43HP7O15811; Wed, 3 May 2000 10:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 10:25:07 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Jim C. Nasby" Cc: Greg Lehey , Marius Vincent , freeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: vinum Message-ID: <20000503102506.B13668@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000503105720.E1654@freebie.lemis.com> <20000503184408.U8284@freebie.lemis.com> <20000503110738.D46955@enteract.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000503110738.D46955@enteract.com>; from jim@nasby.net on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:07:38AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jim C. Nasby [000503 09:40] wrote: > I think the problem with the current vinum documentation is that it's very > intimidating. Those 37 pages are in two manpages and it's difficult for > someone unfamiliar with vinum to get started. A how-to would be very > beneficial, imho. It seems there's also a bunch of caveats that seem easy > to miss, such as that you can boot off a mirror device (at least that's what > I gathered from a previous email in this thread). > > Having said that, I would prefer seeing Greg continue with development > rather than spend time putting together a how-to at this point, since > vinum is still considered 'alpha' afaik. If it didn't take a lot of time > to maintain, an FAQ would probably be very helpful. The manpage contains several howtos specifically under: HOW TO SET UP VINUM -> Designing volumes -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message