Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 12:04:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gary Palmer <gjp@in-addr.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ``how to'' for Vinum and mirroring after the volume was created? Message-ID: <19991227120444.S1316@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <41316.946253007@noop.colo.erols.net> References: <41316.946253007@noop.colo.erols.net>
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On Sunday, 26 December 1999 at 19:03:27 -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > I've got a question or two about vinum, and how to work it. > > I'm trying to upgrade the storage on my home computer, and while I was > transitioning my old disks out, I only managed to get one of the new > ones online to copy data onto it. Did you forget the 'setupstate' keyword? > Now I want to mirror that volume onto a 2nd plex. Attaching the > plex to the volume and doing a vinum start seemed to start a > mirroring process, but it seemed to be reading from both plexes in > round robin to do the mirror! How do you determine that? > This obviously wasn't what I had hoped for. It certainly doesn't make sense? > The second question concerns the flag fields. Is there any way to > change flags on the fly? e.g. change the volume from being round > robin to prefer plex? That's one thing I haven't done yet. It's trivial, but I haven't thought of a syntax for the command. Suggestions? > Lastly, what does vinum mean? Wine (in Latin). If you search, you may find an amusing pun on a Latin saying. Greg -- 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-current" in the body of the message
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