Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:55:11 +0300 (EEST) From: <vezku@surfeu.fi> To: <sparc64@freebsd.org> Subject: sparc 64 - 5.1-RELEASE - - fdisk - bsdlabel - vinum Message-ID: <4344.62.142.81.6.1055332511.squirrel@webmail.surfeu.fi>
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Hi folks,
I've been testing vinum on 5.1-RELEASE (sparc64) and have a few questions.
I believe the problem is sparc64 specific.
System: SUN 250E (2 x sparcII CPUs)
da0: <SEAGATE ST39103LCSUN9.0G 034A>
*FBSD installed on this disk, no probs there
da1: <SEAGATE ST336605LSUN36G 0638>
*dedicated disk to use for /home mirror
da2: <SEAGATE ST336605LSUN36G 0638>
*dedicated disk2 to use for /home mirror
QUESTION 1)
Howto partition and label da1,da2 correctly for vinum?
Step-by-step please, because I tried every freakin way.
test1:
First I tried sysinstall which created da1d and da2d with UFS2/UFS (tested
both) successfully. Some bugs must exist because the new bsdlabel prog
didn't recognize these labels:
bsdlabel: /dev/da1: no valid label found
Anyways I continued and built the vinum module. Then I configured the volume:
1)
drive drive1 device /dev/da1d
drive drive2 device /dev/da2d
volume home setupstate
plex org concat
sd length 34710M drive drive1
plex org concat
sd length 34710M drive drive2
2)newfs /dev/vinum/home (tried both UFS/UFS2 with/out softupdates)
Everything seemed okay until I rebooted. I have start_vinum="YES" in
rc.conf. Still /dev/vinum/home file had disappeared and plexes were not
up.
I has a similar prob in 5.0 but then I hadn't used sysinstall correctly.
Now it's not the case.
test2:
Second I tried the manual way, but didn't find fdisk (not available for
sparc64?) so only was to follow Dedicated disk method (read comments):
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1
$ bsdlabel -rw da1 auto
$ bsdlabel -e da1 # here u can define fstype vinum, is it okay?
$ newfs /dev/da1e # this didn't work because no such device file exist
# i understood fdisk creates devices but howto do it
# without fdisk?
Thanks for any input. If I get it right I'll write in depth document
available for all...software-RAID is such low-level service it needs to
work 100%.
-Vesa, SysAdmin
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