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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>,
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Subject: Re: Help With Vinum Syntax
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Or, put another way, ffs (the FreeBSD file system) runs on top of vinum,
not the other way around.

Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> * Gary Dunn <gdunng@mac.com> [001031 15:28] wrote:
> 
> using an already mounted filesystem to back a raid setup is a BAD idea.
> 
> >
> >  vinum -> create vinumcfg
> >    1: drive a device /dev/da0s3e
> >  ** 1 : Invalid argument
> >    2: drive b device /dev/da1s1e
> >  ** 2 : Invalid argument
> 
> of course, they're mounted and not fstype 'vinum' which the manpage
> explains:
> 
>    DRIVE LAYOUT CONSIDERATIONS
>      vinum drives are currently BSD disk partitions.  They must be of type
>      vinum in order to avoid overwriting data used for other purposes.  Use
>      disklabel -e to edit a partition type definition.  The following display
>      shows a typical partition layout as shown by disklabel:
> 
> ...
> 
> -Alfred
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