Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:34:57 -0600 From: Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootvinum and multiple pc-partitions Message-ID: <20021219223457.A89899@spider.netmails.net> In-Reply-To: <20021220035634.GC90976@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:26:34PM %2B1030 References: <20021219213350.A89777@spider.netmails.net> <20021220035634.GC90976@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:26:34PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I must confess to being a bit baffled. You seem to be confused on a > number of points. Certainly there's never any reason to put more than > one Vinum volume on a physical disk. Are you asking where the second hard-drive is attached to the same cable? Yes, one is the master, other is slave. I guess this could be problem if the master is dead. But they are still two separate harddisks. I was following the article http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/index.html After a search, I found some other articles http://org.netbase.org/vinum-mirrored.html. May be I will try to follow this one. Here is a summary of what I was trying to do:- I began a normal FreeBSD install with a single 120G disk. I needed the following partitions / 1G swap 6G (may be a bit too much!) /var 3G /var/log 1G /var/tmp 1G /tmp 3G /usr 3G /usr/home 3G /fs1 2G /fs2 20G /fs3 40G /fs4 31G Since I don't seem to be able to create more than 7 or so FreeBSD fs partitions per PC-partition, I split the PC-partition into two. That's why I have ad0s1 & ad0s2. Now I need the whole disk mirrored on the second 120G disk. I may not want to mirror /fs4, that's all. > create.ThruBank > create.YouCrazy There are default files (I didn't care to change the default names) generated by bootvinum. > You shouldn't be specifying explicit drive offsets. It's also not a > good idea to specify names for pleses or subdisks. In addition, > you've detected a bug in the Vinum parser: you can't have / characters > in object names. [snip] > > You're creating a lot of unattached plexes here. Why? I just ran the script. So please ignore these. > > I don't know why you're going to so much trouble when it's *much* > easier to do it manually. I can't help you with bootvinum, beyond to > suggest not to use it. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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