From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 15 9: 3:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3753415347 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adamn@csl.com) Received: from csl.com (hermes.criterion.canon.co.uk [194.223.249.13]) by mailhost.criterion.canon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA13536 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 16:52:26 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <38075030.7F681CE8@csl.com> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:02:56 +0100 From: Adam Nealis Organization: Criterion Software, Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: vinum - How long does it take to perform operation X? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 3.3-STABLE (as per a cvsup and update from 14 October). Just starting out with vinum, I've read vinum(4) and vinum(8). I'm trying to create a mirrored volume of 2 x 9GB drives. These drives are /dev/da1s1e and /dev/da2s1e, and are pristine, newfs'd volumes. I don't mount them on boot either, as I quickly discovered vinum dumps core if you try to operate on mount devices. Looking at vinum(8), in "HOW TO SET UP VINUM" section 2, I created a config file /etc/vinum.cf containing drive d1 device /dev/da2e drive d2 device /dev/da3e volume mirror plex org concat sd length 10m drive d1 plex org concat sd length 10m drive d2 The 10m is just to avoid waiting an age to find out what happens. I do bash 2.03# vinum create -v /etc/vinum.cf 1: drive d1 device /dev/da2e Well, after about 30 minutes, I ^C'd this as nothing more had happened. I decided to clear out any cruft with bash 2.03# vinum resetconfig Enter Text -> NO FUTURE and it's been over an hour and the command doesn't seem to have completed. What's happening? I don't understand why this is taking so long. I'm becoming confused! Thanks for any help, Adam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message