Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:54:22 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum questions? Message-ID: <19990316085422.F429@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990315143236.017324@relay.skynet.be>; from Brad Knowles on Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 02:32:36PM %2B0100 References: <19990313085052.C429@lemis.com> <19990315143236.017324@relay.skynet.be>
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On Monday, 15 March 1999 at 14:32:36 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 1999, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote: > >>> Any suggestions? >> >> RTFM (vinum(8)): > > This is a case where the various FMs I had read were not sufficiently > explicit to inform me as to what the root cause of this problem was. A > direct pointer from another poster to this list indicated the need to go > back in and re-run /stand/sysinstall so that I could format the drives > and get newfs to run on them, This is almost certainly bad advice. If there's an exception, it would be nice to know the reasoning. > and once that had happened I was able to rip off the filesystems, > change the partition maps (to add an "e" partition that mirrored the > "c" partion) and attempt to reconfigure them to have vinum on them > instead. > > And with respect to vinum and the FM -- it would help if there was a > default "Use entire disk/partition" mode (which would auto-calculate the > space necessary for the overhead), so that configuration would become > simpler and more "point-and-shoot". There is :-) You're not the first person to ask for this. It's in the -CURRENT version. Just set the size of the subdisk to 0 and it will give you the largest chunk available on the disk. You still need to ensure that the sizes match for striped plexes. Also in -CURRENT, if your plex size is not a multiple of the stripe size, Vinum will trim it for you. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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