Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 09:02:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Marius Vincent <mvincent@elcb.co.za>, freeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vinum Message-ID: <20000504090209.Y8284@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000503110738.D46955@enteract.com> References: <20000503105720.E1654@freebie.lemis.com> <NEBBJNFFELDAHIBIGIAMIENKCBAA.mvincent@elcb.co.za> <20000503184408.U8284@freebie.lemis.com> <20000503110738.D46955@enteract.com>
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On Wednesday, 3 May 2000 at 11:07:38 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 06:44:08PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 3 May 2000 at 10:57:07 +0200, Marius Vincent wrote: >>>> On Tuesday, 2 May 2000 at 15:29:57 +0200, Marius Vincent wrote: >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>>> Has anyone used vinum before?? >>>> >>>> Yes. >>>> >>>>> Please let me know where I can find more help about starting off >>>>> with vinum. >>>> >>>> Look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html, or read the man pages. >>>> >>>>> I want to purchase an identical IDE secondary drive to my primary >>>>> sothat I can mirror the two of them. >>>> >>>> No, you don't want to do that. Use two controllers. >>> >>> Do you know where I can find any literature on vinum, or maybe some >>> kickstart tips? >> >> In the URL above. >> >>> The website does not help much. >> >> What's the problem? >> >>> Also the man paged are very scetchy. >> >> There are a total of 37 pages of man pages. Have you read them? >> What's missing? > > I think the problem with the current vinum documentation is that > it's very intimidating. Those 37 pages are in two manpages and it's > difficult for someone unfamiliar with vinum to get started. A how-to > would be very beneficial, imho. Have you looked at the web page mentioned above? > It seems there's also a bunch of caveats that seem easy to miss, > such as that you can boot off a mirror device (at least that's what > I gathered from a previous email in this thread). No, you currently can't. > Having said that, I would prefer seeing Greg continue with > development rather than spend time putting together a how-to at this > point, since vinum is still considered 'alpha' afaik. No, this is not correct. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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