From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 18:54: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.129.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C12537BA0A for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FBBC6E3E74 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA00910; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:11:15 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:11:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "J. Seth Henry" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum preparation Message-ID: <20000818101115.A878@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <008d01c0085e$d783eff0$0e01a8c0@guinevere> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <008d01c0085e$d783eff0$0e01a8c0@guinevere>; from jshenry@net-noise.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:21:39AM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Please don't write one line per paragraph. On Thursday, 17 August 2000 at 10:21:39 -0500, J. Seth Henry wrote: > I have a pile of 2Gb (more or less) SCSI hard disks laying around > that I would like to bolt together into a RAID5 array using > vinum. The trick is, all of the drives have slightly different sizes, > varying from 2033Mb to 2048Mb. I know that the subvolumes have to be > exactly the same size, but is that the partition, or the slice? No. > I currently have them all dangerously dedicated to the full size of > the drive, and I set the slices to be the same size. > > I have read all of the documentation I could get my hands on > regarding vinum, but so far, I've found nothing that covers > this. When I try to start the array, three of the disks come online, > but the other three fail due to a size mismatch. From this, I would > assume the partitions must be equally sized and the slices set to > fill the partitions. No, this isn't correct. Your subdisks need to be the same size, but Vinum should automatically trim the ones which are too large. Please show (without mutilating the text!) the output from 'vinum create'. 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