From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 14:36:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 205841790B for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:36:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13128; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:56:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:56:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Adam Nealis Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: vinum - How long does it take to perform operation X? In-Reply-To: <380CACC2.2800B9CF@csl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Adam Nealis wrote: > Sorry to take so long to get back. Been busy with other things. > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Adam Nealis wrote: > > > > > 3.3-STABLE (as per a cvsup and update from 14 October). > > > > > > Just starting out with vinum, I've read vinum(4) and vinum(8). > > > > > > I'm trying to create a mirrored volume of 2 x 9GB drives. > > > > > > These drives are /dev/da1s1e and /dev/da2s1e, and are > > > pristine, newfs'd volumes. I don't mount them on boot either, > > > > ^^^^^^ > > > > huh? shouldn't the partition type be set to 'vinum' like in > > the vinum manpage? > Is that vinum(4) or vinum(8)? I can't see anything that mentions > /sbin/mount in either of these man pages. > > As an experiment, I tried changing their type to vinum in /etc/fstab, > but mount complained that it couldn't find mount_vinum. I can't > seem to find the source in /usr/src either. > > /etc/fstab: > > /dev/da1s1e /mnt/mirror0 vinum rw 2 2 > /dev/da2s1e /mnt/mirror2 vinum rw 2 2 > > This is on a 3.3-STABLE box, based on a cvsup and make world > done on 14th October. > > Am I missing something obvious? Yes, the disklabel type should be vinum. You seem to have totally misinterpreted the vinum man page. Vinum will create a device for you in /dev/vinum such as /dev/vinum/vinum0 that you can mount, you do NOT mount the seperate partitions like that. hope this helps. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message