Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 18:00:07 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: aarong <aarong@megapathdsl.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issues mirroring drives with Vinum in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Message-ID: <20031004083007.GF45668@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <D979D088-F63A-11D7-A2AE-000393A364C4@megapathdsl.net> References: <D979D088-F63A-11D7-A2AE-000393A364C4@megapathdsl.net>
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--HqT/R3Rz35fLyCbr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output unwrapped. On Saturday, 4 October 2003 at 0:17:44 -0700, aarong wrote: > I've successfully installed and converted a FreeBSD 4.8 install into a > bootable Vinum volume many times; however mirroring that volume onto a > second identical drive is proving difficult. Per Greg Lehey's > instructions in chapter 12 of "The Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition", I've > setup a bootable Vinum volume and then attempted to mirror it by > creating a second Vinum config file, detailing the second drive and how > the new volumes should be setup. > > This works fine, and Vinum will successfully complete mirroring the all > the volumes, however fsck will fail everytime. Hence when rebooting, > everything goes to hell and a hand basket. I can fsck the volumes > before mirroring without a problem, it's only after Vinum completes > mirroring the volumes that fsck complains. I'd like to see the complaints. This is why I ask for the information in the man page or at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html. > disklabel da0s1: > ... > disklabel da1s1: These look OK. > /vinum.config: I specifically ask not to send this. I can't see anything wrong in it. > vinum create /vinum.config > vinum start root.p1 > vinum start var.p1 > vinum start swap.p1 > vinum start usr.p1 That looks OK. > Obviously I'm missing a vital step here but I'm completely at a loss > as to what it may be. Send the information I ask for and I might find it. 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. NOTE: Due to the currently active Microsoft-based worms, I am limiting all incoming mail to 131,072 bytes. This is enough for normal mail, but not for large attachments. Please send these as URLs. --HqT/R3Rz35fLyCbr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/foUPIubykFB6QiMRAmUDAJ9/uMlKRIvAf4LXx1/2Q4Q8qREeFQCghkXR qMerTd+ir/5T6JV6zJicbRk= =d0/8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HqT/R3Rz35fLyCbr--
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