From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 3:21:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay4.mail.uk.psi.net (relay4.mail.uk.psi.net [154.32.111.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D151F37BA33 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 03:21:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dswegen@allstor-sw.com) Received: from mail.plasmon.co.uk ([193.115.5.217]) by relay4.mail.uk.psi.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 13FDSR-0002H0-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:21:35 +0100 Received: from virgo.software.plasmon ([193.115.4.42]) by mail.plasmon.co.uk (Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.4 (830.2 3-23-1999)) with SMTP id 80256922.0038FA03; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:22:20 +0100 Received: from mail by virgo.software.plasmon with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13FDMw-000A1I-00 (FreeBSD); Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:15:54 +0100 Received: from dsw by panic.software.plasmon with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 13FDV2-0007wb-00 (Debian); Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:24:16 +0100 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:24:15 +0100 From: Dave Swegen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Vinum problems/questions Message-ID: <20000720112415.A30330@allstor-sw.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm currently trying to use vinum to set up a thin client which will function as a mirroring fileserver. The idea is that the customer will enable the mirror using a web-interface. But, of course, I'm having problems. The main one is that for some reason vinum says that one of the two plexes is faulty. This seems to be regardless of what HDs I use. Currently the two HDs are identical (23Gb IDE drives), but I have tried using different disks, different sizes. Using 'vinum create ' works, but as mentioned complains that one of the plexes is faulty. It is far worse using the 'vinum mirror /dev/ad2a /dev/ad3a', which causes a kernel panic and a reboot. Not fun. /var/log/messages shows the following lines: Jul 20 10:16:01 trabant /kernel: dscheck(#ad/16): b_bcount 8 is not on a sector boundary (ssize 512) Jul 20 10:16:01 trabant /kernel: dscheck(#ad/24): b_bcount 8 is not on a sector boundary (ssize 512) The config file I'm using looks as follows: drive drive_a device /dev/ad2a drive drive_b device /dev/ad3a volume mirror plex org concat sd length 0 drive drive_a plex org concat sd length 0 drive drive_b Changing the length makes no difference. I'd much appreciate any enlightenment on the issue. Cheers Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message