Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:39:15 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wency Arzadon <wency@juniper.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie - vinum Message-ID: <20010403153915.R71213@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3AC95B82.AAFE52A2@juniper.net>; from wency@juniper.net on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:11:30PM -0700 References: <3AC95B82.AAFE52A2@juniper.net>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Your mailer wraps output lines. On Monday, 2 April 2001 at 22:11:30 -0700, Wency Arzadon wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm new to Freebsd; I'm trying to use > vinum to mirror a bsd box, running 4.2REL > with 2 internal IDE drives that are both identical. > > My goal is to have a mirrored root drive which contain > the following partitions, and I'm not sure if its possible > to do this. I'm familiar with Veritas, but unsure how vinum > tries to do this. How it tries to do encapsulation of the root drive > etc.. It doesn't. This is currently not possible. > I've compiled vinum in the kernel.. From the man page: It is possible to configure vinum in the kernel, but this is not recom- mended. > I'm getting some weird errors along with different > scenarios. > > Below are my two drives: > host# fdisk -s /dev/ad1 > /dev/ad1: 3737 cyl 255 hd 63 sec > Part Start Size Type Flags > 1: 63 8177022 0xa5 0x80 > 2: 8177085 1012095 0xa5 0x80 > 3: 9189180 1012095 0xa5 0x80 > 4: 10201275 49833630 0xa5 0x80 > > host# fdisk -s /dev/ad0 > /dev/ad0: 38118 cyl 25 hd 63 sec > Part Start Size Type Flags > 1: 63 8191512 0xa5 0x80 > 2: 8191575 2047500 0xa5 0x00 > 3: 10239075 1023750 0xa5 0x00 > 4: 11262825 48773025 0xa5 0x00 Given the problems you have, the output of disklabel would be more interesting. But you almost never need multiple FreeBSD partitions on a disk. There are exceptions, but I can't see any reason here. > ------ > /dev/ad0 is my current OS partition. > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a 3969738 358984 3293175 10% / > /dev/ad0s4e 23635524 1 21744682 0% /export/home > /dev/ad0s3e 495986 4287 452021 1% /var > ------ > I've tried configuring different ways, below is where > i'm using config file. > > My config file:/etc/vinum/config > gnosis# cat /etc/vinum/config > # Vinum configuration of gnosis.englab.juniper.net, saved at Thu Mar 29 > 18:16:11 2001 > > drive vinumdrive0 device /dev/ad1a > drive vinumdrive1 device /dev/ad1b > drive vinumdrive2 device /dev/ad1d > drive vinumdrive3 device /dev/ad1e This is wrong. You should never put more than one drive on a spindle. > volume rootmirror > plex org concat > sd length 2g drive vinumdrive0 > > volume swapmirror > plex org concat > sd length 1000M drive vinumdrive1 > > volume varmirror > plex org concat > sd length 500m drive vinumdrive2 > > volume dbmirror > plex org concat > sd length 23g drive vinumdrive3 Under these circumstances, put all the subdisks on the same drive. But note that the names are wrong: these volumes are not mirrored. > ----- > vinum -> create -f /etc/vinum/config > 3: drive vinumdrive0 device /dev/ad1a > ** 3 : Invalid argument This looks like you haven't set the partition to type 'vinum'. That should show up in your log files. > 4: drive vinumdrive1 device /dev/ad1b > ** 4 : Invalid argument > 5: drive vinumdrive2 device /dev/ad1d > ** 5 : Invalid argument > 6: drive vinumdrive3 device /dev/ad1e > ** 6 : Invalid argument > 0 drives: > vinum -> > ---- > vinum -> init rootmirror.p0.s0 > vinum -> vinum[266]: initializing subdisk /dev/vinum/sd/rootmirror.p0.s0 > Can't initialize /dev/vinum/sd/rootmirror.p0.s0: Device busy (16) Considering that the subdisk is down, this isn't going to work. I'll check why it says "device busy" and not "I/O error". > Why does it complained with invalid agument? > How do I initialize my drives, subdisk? You don't need to for this kind. But first you get the devices up. > It eventually all become in the State: up after mucking around. I'd be interested how. > Anyways the man pages for vinum is not too intuitive. Once i try > newfs/or mounting my machine crashes. More details, please. How did you get it up? Where are the dumps? > Can someone point to some good doc, or tell me I cannot do this with > IDE drives. You can do this with IDE drives. Solve the first problem first, and the rest will probably be OK. If you still have problems, look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message
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