From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 11 18:22:10 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 4DE0F16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:22:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (dev.eagle.ca [209.167.58.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436F143D39 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:22:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 13759 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Aug 2004 18:23:14 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamscan: 0.73. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 1.23674 secs); 11 Aug 2004 18:23:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail.ibctech.ca) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.ibctech.ca with SMTP; 11 Aug 2004 18:23:12 -0000 Received: from 209.167.16.15 (SquirrelMail authenticated user steve@ibctech.ca); by webmail.ibctech.ca with HTTP; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:23:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1282.209.167.16.15.1092248592.squirrel@209.167.16.15> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:23:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bertrand" To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Vinum clarification 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: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:22:10 -0000 I am wanting to set up a vinum configuration so that I have a spanned volume containing a large partition on one drive, and a second entire disk. I am a little confused whether I need to build a striped or concat volume. The usable size on one disk is different from the usable size on the other disk. From what I gather from the man pages and some howto's found on the 'net, does this look like a reasonable config, or should I use type stripe instead? drive d1 device /dev/ad1s1e drive d2 device /dev/ad2e volume span plex org concat sd length 40000m drive d1 plex org concat sd length 118000m drive d2 Unfortunately, I am not in a position to try this on a test network, so this will be done on a hot production box. I understand that it will wipe out data, but in this instance, both areas to be used are currently empty. Tks for any advice.