Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:52:14 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Matt Ruby <mruby2003@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum question - Is this possible? Message-ID: <20021213022214.GA77980@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021213021037.28340.qmail@web14511.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021208235143.GP96646@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021213021037.28340.qmail@web14511.mail.yahoo.com>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Thursday, 12 December 2002 at 18:10:37 -0800, Matt Ruby wrote: > --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> 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. > > 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 You don't need setupstate if you only have one plex. It doesn't do any harm; it just doesn't make any difference. > 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 Yes. > assuming equal-sized drives, and that a "start var.p1" and "start > usr.p1" should get them going. Yes. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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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