Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:22:39 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Harding <bdh@inspire.net.nz> Cc: richard@net-solutions.net.nz Subject: Re: vinum software raid as boot drive Message-ID: <20040921015239.GR67689@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <414F47F3.9060608@inspire.net.nz> References: <414F47F3.9060608@inspire.net.nz>
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--QKFUq+IbM9AW97yF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 21 September 2004 at 9:13:23 +1200, Bruce Harding wrote: > We are currently trying to set up server with software raid using vinum > on 5.3. We plan to use it as a Mirrored root filesystem So far we have > followed Greg Lehey's instructions from > > http://www.daemonnews.org/200002/vinum.html > > and the handbook on vinum: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html > > note we are only using a single / partition. > > ... > > We could not find stated exactly anywhere, but we are presuming the > description file that you use with vinum create becomes > /etc/vinum.conf Well, you need to call it that. The name isn't critical, but it's a good choice. > When we execute vinum create it appears to work fine. The Devices are > created in /dev/vinum/ and we can do a fsck -n -t ufs /dev/vinum/root > which outputs no errors > > The problem is when we reboot the devices in /dev/vinum are destroyed ( > presume this is normal behaviour ) but they are not created on boot. Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. It might help; otherwise supply the information asked for there. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --QKFUq+IbM9AW97yF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBT4lnIubykFB6QiMRAsKhAJ9cktUkqV+a7Lkm5st+mhSv0CnxowCcCXd2 CZO9ZdboqZP9t4vKj2V1xgg= =HcSI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QKFUq+IbM9AW97yF--
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