Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 10:28:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: ritesh krishna <riteshkrishna@yahoo.co.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VINUM(8) showing faulty plex Message-ID: <20020502102856.F52284@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020429132106.17484.qmail@web8102.in.yahoo.com> References: <20020429132106.17484.qmail@web8102.in.yahoo.com>
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On Monday, 29 April 2002 at 14:21:06 +0100, ritesh krishna wrote: > hi there, > there are some problems i am facing trying the FreeBSD > volume manager VINUM(8).i am using FreeBSD 4.5. I have > 2 extra ESDI disks of 2.1GBs on which i am trying to > make a logical volume.As the reference, i am looking > at the official site of Vinum www.vinumvm.org.there > are some examples given as how to setup vinum.i am > trying to follow those examples as closely as > possible.i am giving you the details of my > configuration files as below. > > CONFIGURATION FILE 1 : > ================================================== > drive a device /dev/ad1s1e > volume myvol > plex org concat > sd length 512m drive a > > =============END OF CONFIG. FILE 1 =============== > > CONFIGURATION FILE 2 : > ================================================== > drive b device /dev/ad3s1e > volume mirror > plex org concat > sd length 512m drive a > plex org concat > sd length 512m drive b > =============END OF CONFIG. FILE 2 =============== > > now the problem is that ,as soon as the devices are > made by vinum, i am getting one PLEX as faulty.though > i am able to make a newfs on the volume made,but the > mirroring is not happening.i am giving the output of > dumpconfig also,that might help looking at the problem > more closely. This is a feature, not a bug. Read the man page again and look for the word 'setupstate'. Basically, your plexes can't be in sync until you copy all the data from one to the other, so the second plex starts off down. 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
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