From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 16:50:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC8D37B444 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9D24E7831E; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:20:24 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:20:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Giles, George S" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum Raid 5 Problem Message-ID: <20020318112024.B70252@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <482151146.1016354251@ci537698-a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <482151146.1016354251@ci537698-a> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Sunday, 17 March 2002 at 8:37:31 -0600, Giles, George S wrote: > > My system has three identical disks. The following config does not > work: > > 1 volumes: > V myRaidFive State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 8192 MB Care to have a guess what "down" means? > 1 plexes: > P myRaidFive.p0 R5 State: init Subdisks: 3 Size: 8192 MB "init" may not be so obvious. That's why it's described in the man page: init [-S] size [-w] plex | subdisk vinum init initializes a subdisk by writing zeroes to it. You can initialize all subdisks in a plex by specifying the plex name. This is the only way to ensure consistent data in a plex. You must perform this initialization before using a RAID-5 plex. It is also recommended for other new plexes. vinum initializes all subdisks of a plex in parallel. Since this operation can take a long time, it is normally performed in the background. If you want to wait for completion of the command, use the -w (wait) option. Specify the -S option if you want to write blocks of a different size from the default value of 16 kB. vinum prints a console message when the initialization is complete. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. 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