From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 22:08:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF2B16A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:08:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 255B343FBF for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:08:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([4.46.22.189]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031024050806.RGDT5896.out011.verizon.net@duron.pcmedx.com>; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:08:06 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF48CAE96; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mike (mike.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.244]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E291AC48; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <001201c399ec$d40e89c0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> From: "Mike Maltese" To: References: Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:08:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd (http://www.amavis.org) and f-prot (http://www.f-prot.com) at pcmedx.com X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out011.verizon.net from [4.46.22.189] at Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:08:06 -0500 cc: "RWELLS@THEBEATBOX.ORG" Subject: Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 05:08:08 -0000 > The problems: > 1 - I am able to build the RAID, create a filesystem, and mount to a > directory in the tree. But I am not able to figure out how to add an > entry to my /etc/fstab file so that it is automatically mounted on > reboot. I have looked in the handbook and all it says is to "add the > proper entries". I simple do not know what entry to add. Should be something like: /dev/vinum/yourvolume /mountpoint ufs rw 1 2 > 2 - On reboot, the vinum config is erased. (or at least thats what it > looks like...see dmesg output for info) It is my understanding that on > reboot, vinum reads it's configuration from each vinum drive. Since I > was able to create and mount the RAID, I assume that the configuration > would still be there on reboot, even thought it is not being mounted > with fstab (see problem 1). I have tried this on several systems and > have yet to be successful in having a vinum config survive reboot. I > have re-read and re-read the vinum section in the handbook and have > looked elsewhere but have had no luck :( Have you tried 'start_vinum="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf?