From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 18 18: 6:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat203.199.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.203.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 245F815038 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA62550; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:06:16 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 22:06:15 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mirroring one drive to another...vinum? In-Reply-To: <19990919095620.O55065@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > You mean the man pages on your system, and not the web pages, I hope. > To quote the web pagess: > > This document contains preliminary information about Vinum. It is > not as bad as it used to be, but it's still not complete. If you > find something confusing or just plain wrong, please let me know and > I'll do something about it. Web pages...and I did read the disclaimer before diving in, but at: http://www.lemis.com/vinum/The-big-picture.html It explicitly states that vinum enforces a minimum of 3 subdisks for a RAID-5 plex...what I want to do is mirror da0s1a->da1s1a, da0s1?->da0s1?, etc...which, to my understanding, isn't even RAID-5, but RAID-1... Basically, I want to mirror my system disk to a second drive on the same size/make, so that if one dies, my whole system doesn't go poof... Then gain, I just checked 'man 4 vinum', and it also states it requires a minimum of 3... Please note that my use of RAID=1 is from the Solaris/DiskSuite environment...I'm new to it with FreeBSD/Vinum :( Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message