From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 8:20:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from one.net-noise.com (ansible.nwark.net [208.136.254.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E99537B674 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guinevere (guinevere.net-noise.com [192.168.1.14]) by one.net-noise.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA17565 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:20:23 -0500 Message-ID: <008d01c0085e$d783eff0$0e01a8c0@guinevere> From: "J. Seth Henry" To: Subject: vinum preparation Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:21:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_008A_01C00834.EE2A8720" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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

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.

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. =

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Seth Henry

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