From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Aug 5 23:48:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3622415004 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:47:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA15226; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:17:45 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA44190; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:17:42 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:17:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bernd Walter Cc: pedro , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ccdconfig and mirroring Message-ID: <19990806161742.S5126@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37A676D8.50108E8D@crp.com.au> <19990806105545.U5126@freebie.lemis.com> <19990806071644.A30939@cicely8.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990806071644.A30939@cicely8.cicely.de>; from Bernd Walter on Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 07:16:44AM +0200 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 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 6 August 1999 at 7:16:44 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 10:55:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 14:58:00 +1000, pedro wrote: >>> Has anyone successful got mirroring working under 3.2-RELEASE. >> >> Yes. But I use Vinum. >> >>> I have 2x4Gb SCSI drives and I have followed the steps that I could >>> find at freebsd.org >>> >>> made ccd device >>> added pseudo-device ccd 4 to kernel config >>> disklabel -r -w d10 auto >>> disklabel -e da1c *I wasn't sure about this one so I changed the >>> fstype >>> ccdconfig ccd0 32 6 /dev/da0a /dev/da1c >>> newfs /dev/rccd0c >>> >>> When I rebooted the machine it dosen't have a kernel to start in. >> >> Could you expand on that statement? >> >>> I am now re-installing the machine so if anyone could give me an >>> idea of what I need to do it would be very helpful. >> >> Well, first, never reinstall unless you have a very good reason to >> do so, such as a completely trashed disk. > > Agree - but a newfs on anything derived from da0a is generaly a good > reason. Yes, I suppose if he had had his root file system on /dev/da0a, that would explain a lot of things, including the reinstall. This is the reason that Vinum will refuse to build on a partition of type 4.2BSD. 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-fs" in the body of the message