From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 01:52:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AA516A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:52:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC1D43D2F for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:52:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C85F12BDB5 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:52:41 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A57C0511FA; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:22:39 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:22:39 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Bruce Harding Message-ID: <20040921015239.GR67689@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <414F47F3.9060608@inspire.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QKFUq+IbM9AW97yF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <414F47F3.9060608@inspire.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: richard@net-solutions.net.nz Subject: Re: vinum software raid as boot drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:52:45 -0000 --QKFUq+IbM9AW97yF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 21 September 2004 at 9:13:23 +1200, Bruce Harding wrote: > We are currently trying to set up server with software raid using vinum > on 5.3. We plan to use it as a Mirrored root filesystem So far we have > followed Greg Lehey's instructions from > > http://www.daemonnews.org/200002/vinum.html > > and the handbook on vinum: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html > > note we are only using a single / partition. > > ... > > We could not find stated exactly anywhere, but we are presuming the > description file that you use with vinum create becomes > /etc/vinum.conf Well, you need to call it that. The name isn't critical, but it's a good choice. > When we execute vinum create it appears to work fine. The Devices are > created in /dev/vinum/ and we can do a fsck -n -t ufs /dev/vinum/root > which outputs no errors > > The problem is when we reboot the devices in /dev/vinum are destroyed ( > presume this is normal behaviour ) but they are not created on boot. Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. It might help; otherwise supply the information asked for there. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --QKFUq+IbM9AW97yF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBT4lnIubykFB6QiMRAsKhAJ9cktUkqV+a7Lkm5st+mhSv0CnxowCcCXd2 CZO9ZdboqZP9t4vKj2V1xgg= =HcSI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QKFUq+IbM9AW97yF--