From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 22:30:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33CB16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:30:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CD543D45 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:30:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450F02BDC5 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:30:23 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2D096511FA; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:00:21 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:00:21 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: David Kelly Message-ID: <20040921223021.GX67689@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <414F47F3.9060608@inspire.net.nz> <20040921015239.GR67689@wantadilla.lemis.com> <9A40FA50-0BD1-11D9-ADFE-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="O4VoXDY02cEAFJWy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9A40FA50-0BD1-11D9-ADFE-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD-questions Questions Subject: Re: vinum software raid as boot drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:30:28 -0000 --O4VoXDY02cEAFJWy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 21 September 2004 at 8:24:44 -0500, David Kelly wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>> 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. > > I use vinum only for a data volume. I've seen /etc/vinum.conf mentioned > in the handbook and other documentation but didn't understand its use. > Was under the impression that recent vinum stored this information in > the headers on the drives? That it found its drives by reading the > volume types off BSD partitions. Yes, that's correct. But when setting up Vinum, you need to create a configuration file. > Vinum in 5.2.1 often fails to remember its configuration on boot. You're reporting that. > But sometimes remembers on a cold boot. Would "vinum printconfig > > /etc/vinum.conf" help? No. That would destroy your configuration file. You could save it elsewhere. But it would be better to find out why it's not working. Note that Vinum under 5.2.1 is in transition to a rewrite. I can't help you with the new version > Sometimes vinum finds its configuration and boots. Then something > changed and vinum behaved on 3 boots in a row. Had composed a lengthy > email in answer to Greg's debugging checklist above. Was tricked into > deleting it unsent. This won't help find your problem. > I suspect the issues are related because I always lose vinum > configuration after a panic, Until proof of the contrary, don't make this assumption. 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. --O4VoXDY02cEAFJWy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBUKt9IubykFB6QiMRAn8DAJ4n/NiwBvAOOPDlMmayyf1eOrCLeACfaSNF dZD2tNeJ0Kmvyn+wekMg/tc= =qiGf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --O4VoXDY02cEAFJWy--