Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:19:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum in -current Message-ID: <19990623151950.A581@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <377071AF.4541C060@cybercable.fr>; from Thierry Herbelot on Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:33:35AM %2B0200 References: <grog@lemis.com> <199906230214.WAA26278@cs.rpi.edu> <19990623120730.H76907@freebie.lemis.com> <377071AF.4541C060@cybercable.fr>
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On Wednesday, 23 June 1999 at 7:33:35 +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> > > [SNIP] > >> I've also changed the names of the drives. With the old ones, you >> won't be able to start the volume after a reboot. To quote vinum(8): >> >> drive name option >> >> Define a drive. The option must be: >> >> device devicename Specify the device on which the drive resides. >> devicename must be the name of a disk compati- >> bility partition, for example /dev/da1e or >> /dev/wd3h, and it should be of type vinum. Do >> not use the c partition, which is reserved for >> the complete disk, and should be of type >> unused. It is currently possible to create >> drives on other disk devices, for example >> /dev/da0s1 or /dev/da0s1e, but it will not be >> possible to start these drives after a reboot. > > Hello Greg, > > If I may intrude in this discussion, I was wondering what is the correct > syntax for naming vinum drives in rc.conf. > I've got two drives merged and striped with vinum, but I'm not sure what > to put in rc.conf > vinum_conf : > drive drive1 device /dev/wd1s1h > drive drive2 device /dev/wd2s1h As the man page excerpt that you quoted above shows, this is wrong. It should be /dev/wd1h and /dev/wd2h. > volume initial > plex org striped 512b > sd length 19806208b drive drive1 > sd length 19806208b drive drive2 > > in rc.conf : > Is the following correct : > vinum_drives="/dev/wd1s1h /dev/wd2s1h" > or should it be > vinum_drives="/dev/wd1h /dev/wd2h" In fact, it should be vinum_drives="" start_vinum=YES That way, vinum will start all drives. > Big kudos for vinum Thanks. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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