From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 18:19:57 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 3CFBF37B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 18:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E09A43F93 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 18:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 802D451A9A; Fri, 16 May 2003 10:49:53 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:49:53 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Joachim Dagerot Message-ID: <20030516011953.GW21491@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030515030957.GA817@panix.com> <200305150718.h4F7Ixs05491@thunder.trej.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qie/H+CJBZigrS0F" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305150718.h4F7Ixs05491@thunder.trej.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum works great until reboot. 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, 16 May 2003 01:19:57 -0000 --qie/H+CJBZigrS0F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 15 May 2003 at 9:18:59 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > I have managed to create my volume, my plex (raid-5) and my disks. > I have managed to initialize all the subdisks and the disks. (Took an > eternity) > I have managed to newfs the volume and then mount it. > I have managed to copy a file into the newly created volume. > I have added start_vinum="yes" in /etc/rc.conf > > BUT > > when I reboot the system everything is lost. Vinum doesn't know of any > drives/plexes/volumes I configured, initialized and formatted. > > What am I doing wrong? Who knows? I'd guess you have done something wrong. Often people who report things like that haven't read the man page (otherwise they'd supply the information needed to solve the problem) and have put the drives on the c partition. > Please help, this is extremely frustrating and because of the hours > it takes to initialize the sub-disks this can't be done with > trial-error methodology! :) It's also extremely frustrating to get problem reports without any supporting evidence. Take a look at the man page or http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and supply some information. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --qie/H+CJBZigrS0F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+xDy5IubykFB6QiMRAqGBAJwKa89Sanct74CR6TH6Paxs2yCaswCeJuL2 zZeCeiG7CA/McWuHg7mKpqY= =yjJU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qie/H+CJBZigrS0F--