From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 05:38:10 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 927BF16A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mux1.uit.no (mux1.uit.no [129.242.4.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2AAC43FF2 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:38:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ingeborg.Hellemo@cc.uit.no) Received: from mangus.cc.uit.no (mangus.cc.uit.no [129.242.6.11]) by mux1.uit.no (8.12.10/8.12.9/Mux) with ESMTP id h8OCc7U0070746 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:38:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dis.cc.uit.no (dis.cc.uit.no [129.242.6.225]) by mangus.cc.uit.no (8.12.8/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h8OCc1nF025954 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:38:01 +0200 (METDST) Received: from dis.cc.uit.no (localhost.cc.uit.no [127.0.0.1]) by dis.cc.uit.no (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8OCc6Sc000692 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:38:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ingeborg@dis.cc.uit.no) Message-Id: <200309241238.h8OCc6Sc000692@dis.cc.uit.no> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:38:06 +0200 From: Ingeborg Hellemo X-Virus-Scanned: : ok X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Subject: Vinum - plex larger than volume 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: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:38:10 -0000 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p6 I am trying to stripe two large (1.3 TB) disks into one vinum volume. /# ls -la /dev/vinum/ total 1 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 24 16:34 . dr-xr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Sep 24 16:34 .. /# vinum vinum -> stripe -v /dev/twed0a /dev/twed1a drive vinumdrive0 device /dev/twed0a drive vinumdrive1 device /dev/twed1a volume vinum0 plex name vinum0.p0 org striped 279k sd name vinum0.p0.s0 drive vinumdrive0 size 2734359125b sd name vinum0.p0.s1 drive vinumdrive1 size 2734359125b Can't create /dev/vinum/vinum0: File exists Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/vinum0: No such file or directory Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/vinum0.plex: No such file or directory Can't create /dev/vinum/plex/vinum0.p0: File exists Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/vinum0.plex/vinum0.p0: No such file or directory Can't create /dev/vinum/vol/vinum0.plex/vinum0.p0.sd: No such file or directory Can't create /dev/vinum/sd/vinum0.p0.s0: File exists Can't create /dev/vinum/sd/vinum0.p0.s1: File exists V vinum0 State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 559 GB P vinum0.p0 S State: up Subdisks: 2 Size: 2607 GB S vinum0.p0.s0 State: up D: vinumdrive0 Size: 1303 GB S vinum0.p0.s1 State: up D: vinumdrive1 Size: 1303 GB Why all these "Can't create" errors? But most important, why is the plex larger than the volume? --Ingeborg -- Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo -- ingeborg@cc.uit.no (Univ. of Tromsø, Norway)