Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:41:40 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum questions? Message-ID: <19990312144140.011407@relay.skynet.be> In-Reply-To: <19990312133024.005687@relay.skynet.be>
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On Fri, Mar 12, 1999, Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> wrote:
> Anyway, the one hurdle I'm trying to get over at the moment is that
>vinum thinks that the devices /dev/da1c through /dev/da9c do not exist
>(they do -- I created them with MAKEDEV), and therefore it refuses to
>start the disks d1 through d9. Without those disks, of course neither of
>the two plexes start up, and of course the volume fails to start as well.
Well, my vinum configuration was confused enough that I blew it
completely away, then made the mistake of trying to recreate it without
rebooting first (against the warnings that I recall running across
somewhere). Nice little kernel panic there. At least the 60GB of
anonymous ftp disk space wasn't available yet, otherwise the fsck would
have taken quite some time. ;-)
Anyway, here's a sample error that I get now that I've tried to
recreate it again:
>vinum -> ld -v
>Drive drive1: Device /dev/da1c
> Created on at Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
> Config last updated Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
> Size: 0 bytes (0 MB)
> Used: 0 bytes (0 MB)
> Available: 0 bytes (0 MB)
> State: down
> Last error: Invalid argument
All devices /dev/da1c through /dev/da9c exist (and so far as I know
are valid), and I can pull disklabels off these devices (although I seem
to be unable to write disklabels, so I can't add a partition other than
"c" that I could use with vinum).
Any hints? Maybe the problem is with being unable to disklabel the
drives? Perhaps someone could give me some pointers on how I might be
able to successfully force that to happen?
Oh, and ssh installed very cleanly, so I don't have to re-type
anymore. ;-)
Finally, while we're at it, I don't suppose anyone has any experience
with running a softupdates filesystem on top of a vinum
striped/concatenated volume, do you? Am I dreaming in hoping that I'll
be able to get these two working together?
--
These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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