From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 12 18:10:39 2002 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 CA7B837B404 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:10:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from web14511.mail.yahoo.com (web14511.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A1C443EC5 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:10:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mruby2003@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021213021037.28340.qmail@web14511.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.192.122.173] by web14511.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:10:37 PST Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:10:37 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Ruby Subject: Re: vinum question - Is this possible? To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021208235143.GP96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 8 December 2002 at 9:17:53 -0800, Matt > Ruby wrote: > > Is this possible? > > ... > > Yes. > > > ... > > In the case of a failed drive, Vinum knows all about > it, just not > where it is. In your case Vinum doesn't know about > the new disk; you > have to tell it. Do that with an incremental > configuration file just > describing the new objects. > > I'm attaching a draft from the upcoming 4th edition > of "The Complete > FreeBSD". Take a look at it and tell me if > anything's unclear. > > Greg > -- > ... Thanks for replying so quickly. My existing drive seems now to be in the process of dying, so copying its contents has been more time consuming than I expected (due to many IDE timeouts). This means I'll be getting a 3rd drive to use for the mirror, too. Anyway, I'm assuming that with this original configuration: drive drive1 device /dev/ad0s1e volume var setupstate plex org concat sd length 256m drive drive1 volume usr setupstate plex org concat sd length 0 drive drive1 this second configuration should work: drive drive2 device /dev/ad2s1e plex name var.p1 org concat volume var sd length 256m drive drive2 plex name usr.p1 org concat volume usr sd length 0 drive drive2 assuming equal-sized drives, and that a "start var.p1" and "start usr.p1" should get them going. There was a little more in that excerpt than I needed, which made me confused initially, but I think I've sorted it out now. Thanks again for your help, -M __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message