Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:23:21 +0100 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Vinum Problem Message-ID: <1111947800.26454.4.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200503271059.13101.ean@hedron.org> References: <1111937727.24385.4.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> <200503271059.13101.ean@hedron.org>
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On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 16:59, Ean Kingston wrote: > On March 27, 2005 10:35 am, Robert Slade wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have managed to setup a vinum volume using 2 striped disks, the volume > > is created and I can do newfs on it and mount it. > > > > However, when I set start_vinum="YES" in rc.conf, vinum loads then I get > > panic, followed by hanging vnode. > > > > I'm using 5.3. > > > > Any pointers please. > > In 5.3, you need to use gvinum instead of vinum. To do this set > start_vinum="NO" in /etc/rc.conf and set geom_vinum_load="YES" > in /boot/loader.conf. > > gvinum will read your vinum configuration just fine so you only need to make > the changes I suggested to get it to work. > > Althought this is documented, it is not what I would call 'well documented' > yet. Ean, Thank you, that got me further, I appears to have created a new /dev/gvinum/test, which seems to the right size, but when I mount it as /test, I get not a directory when I try and ls it. I have tried to find documentation on geom, but that seems to be related to mirroring. Rob
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