Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:21:39 -0500 From: "J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@net-noise.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: vinum preparation Message-ID: <008d01c0085e$d783eff0$0e01a8c0@guinevere>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_008A_01C00834.EE2A8720 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a pile of 2Gb (more or less) SCSI hard disks laying around that I = would like to bolt together into a RAID5 array using vinum. The trick = is, all of the drives have slightly different sizes, varying from 2033Mb = to 2048Mb. I know that the subvolumes have to be exactly the same size, = but is that the partition, or the slice? I currently have them all = dangerously dedicated to the full size of the drive, and I set the = slices to be the same size. I have read all of the documentation I could get my hands on regarding = vinum, but so far, I've found nothing that covers this. When I try to = start the array, three of the disks come online, but the other three = fail due to a size mismatch. From this, I would assume the partitions = must be equally sized and the slices set to fill the partitions.=20 Any ideas? Thanks, Seth Henry jshenry@net-noise.com ------=_NextPart_000_008A_01C00834.EE2A8720 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have a pile of 2Gb (more or less) = SCSI hard disks=20 laying around that I would like to bolt together into a RAID5 array = using vinum.=20 The trick is, all of the drives have slightly different sizes, varying = from=20 2033Mb to 2048Mb. I know that the subvolumes have to be exactly the = same=20 size, but is that the partition, or the slice? I currently have them all = dangerously dedicated to the full size of the drive, and I set the = slices to be=20 the same size.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have read all of the documentation I = could get my=20 hands on regarding vinum, but so far, I've found nothing that = covers this.=20 When I try to start the array, three of the disks come online, but the = other=20 three fail due to a size mismatch. From this, I would assume the = partitions must=20 be equally sized and the slices set to fill the partitions. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Any ideas?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Seth Henry</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20 href=3D"mailto:jshenry@net-noise.com">jshenry@net-noise.com</A></FONT></D= IV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_008A_01C00834.EE2A8720-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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