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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:08:14 -0700
From:      "Mike Maltese" <mike@pcmedx.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "RWELLS@THEBEATBOX.ORG" <rwells@thebeatbox.org>
Subject:   Re: vinum concatenated raid setup problems 
Message-ID:  <001201c399ec$d40e89c0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com>
References:  <PDEILHPKMOIPFPKCGAPBKEGHCMAA.rwells@thebeatbox.org>

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> 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?



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