From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 27 15:43:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6345637B402 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:42:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9C14978317; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:54:19 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:54:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Martin Blapp Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: double fault with vinum and 4.5 RC3 Message-ID: <20020128095419.G72512@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020127142643.A19909@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020127105617.I67380-100000@levais.imp.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020127105617.I67380-100000@levais.imp.ch> 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-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 27 January 2002 at 11:01:48 +0100, Martin Blapp wrote: > > Hi Greg. > >> As I've mentioned elsewhere, this is seriously suboptimal. The >> "mirror" command is a toy for people getting used to Vinum. You want > > Why is this suboptimal ? It's fast done. It wastes time and space. > It seems to work. Else you have to say: "not supported, since it can > panic your machine". It does not panic your machine. >> a proper config file. Then create one drive per spindle, and choose >> your subdisk sizes to match what you want. Specifically, your config >> file should look like this: > > So why this isn't noted in the documentation ? It is. I have a strong suspicion that you haven't read the documentation. > Also the documentation is not up to date. vinum(4) still refers to > raw disks etc. Yes, that needs changing. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message