From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 17:34:40 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 8D57416A4CE; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from peter.smxy.org (smxy.org [64.32.179.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7C443D31; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:34:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ste@smxy.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peter.smxy.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A4A248E; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:34:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smxy.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (peter.smxy.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id 21293-07; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:34:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smxy.org (pcp09423173pcs.plnfld01.nj.comcast.net [69.141.211.132]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by peter.smxy.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5FF2072; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:34:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4087131E.2030000@smxy.org> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:34:38 -0400 From: "Shaun T. Erickson" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ste@smxy.org References: <4086E78C.1090008@smxy.org> <4086F59F.7080302@potentialtech.com> <20040421224616.GC76172@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4086FF84.5090404@smxy.org> In-Reply-To: <4086FF84.5090404@smxy.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 at smxy.org cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey cc: Bill Moran cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need vinum info/advice, fast. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ste@smxy.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:34:40 -0000 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html > http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf Ok. I've read both documents, which were quite educational. Thanks. :) It seems that what I want to do is install to the first system disk, as normally, and then convert that disk to a vinum disk, using the method described starting on page 237 of the above vinum.pdf. The steps aren't entirely clear to me, after that, as to how to make the second disk a vinum drive that is a mirror of the first. Do I just partition it as normally, but saying that the partition types are type vinum? Then do I format those new partitions, and then describe the volume, plexes and subdisks in the configuration file, adding each subdisk to the existing setup so it will mirror? Do I ever even have to format thos partitions, or does vinum just recreate the filesystems bit by bit? I'm not sure I'm asking the right questions. Pointers are most welcome. :) -ste