Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:32:28 +0000 From: David Dooley <dpd@Raffles-IT.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Vinum and Promise ATS Raid card Message-ID: <20031220163228.3fb3e493.dpd@raffles-it.com>
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Hi I am having a problems creating vinum objects. I have 4 200GB disks connected to a Promise ATA FastTRAK raid controller and the disk are defined as a 400GB Raid 0+1 drive. This all appears to be fine and is viasable to the OS ar0: 381469MB <ATA RAID0+1 array> [48630/255/63] status: READY subdisks: 0 READY ad0: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JB-32EVA0> [387621/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 1 READY ad1: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JB-32EVA0> [387621/16/63] at ata2-slave UDMA100 2 READY ad2: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JB-32EVA0> [387621/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 3 READY ad3: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JB-32EVA0> [387621/16/63] at ata3-slave UDMA100 As that stands I can label the disk and newfs it and all is working fine. # /dev/ar0c: type: ESDI disk: ar0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 48629 sectors/unit: 781240887 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 781240887 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 48629*) e: 781240887 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 0 - 48629*) and after newfs with the file system mounted Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0e 384514280 2 353753136 0% /mnt Now what I would really like to do is is create lots of vinum objects that I can use to create file systems out of and to extend them as and when needed and also to remove the whole 7 partitions limitation. So after unmounting the file system and changeing the disk label to from 4.2BSD to vinum # disklabel -r ar0 # /dev/ar0c: type: ESDI disk: ar0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 48629 sectors/unit: 781240887 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 781240887 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 48629*) e: 781240887 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 48629*) I tried to do the first step in creating a vinum volume si I created a config file with the line drive a device /dev/ar0e I then fired up vinum and ran the command vinum -> create -f /etc/vinum.config and got the response 1: drive a device /dev/ar0e ** 1 Can't initialize drive a: Operation not supported by device 0 drives: 0 volumes: 0 plexes: 0 subdisks: I tried the config with drive a device /dev/ar0s1e and got the same response can any one tell me if vinum supports hardware raid disks. I really want to use vinum to get of the limitation of 7 file system / partitions per drive so I can create a number of small volumes and add plexes as and when require to grow the file system and not for the redundancy/resiliency aspects as that is taken care of by the hardware. Thanks for any help and advice. David. -- David Dooley dpd@raffles-it.com
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