From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 19 20:18:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9426414BC6 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13443; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:43:24 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "oracle" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpde13441; Mon Sep 20 13:43:13 1999 Message-ID: <01b101bf0369$cd659820$827e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "river" Cc: References: <21DC5E98AE1FD311B1290020AFDB6C6E63F3@cx288885-b.okcs1.ok.home.com> Subject: Re: VINUM Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:12:32 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well not too far ahead I'm gonna attempt vinum setup .... I've been saving all the postings on the subject for weeks now but maybe need a "Vinum for the Severely Brain Damaged" before I get the thing working ...... at least there seems to be a few guys around here that know about BSD stuff so I'll just have to read everything then bug the list for clarification til I comprehend it I guess :) ----- Original Message ----- From: river To: 'Greg Lehey' Cc: Ulairi ; Questions ; Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 3:12 AM Subject: RE: VINUM > arg....i did RTFM....thats why I'm so confused at this point. Am I clear > enough on that point! > > What i got from the manual was that i would have to start over, move the > current FS to the new VINUM drive...etc > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@lemis.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 9:53 PM > To: river > Cc: Ulairi; Questions; jake@checker.org > Subject: Re: VINUM > > > On Sunday, 19 September 1999 at 21:36:36 -0500, river wrote: > > On Sunday, September 19, 1999 8:07 PM, Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@lemis.com] > wrote: > >> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > >> > >> On Sunday, 19 September 1999 at 19:24:25 -0500, river wrote: > >>> On Sunday, September 19, 1999 7:02 PM, Ulairi wrote: > >>>> On Sunday, September 19, 1999 16:53, river wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> I read there also.....it is the same content in "The Complete FreeBSD" > >>>>> manual.... > >>>>> > >>>>> I was looking for some more information....they are both quite vague > >> > >> If you think they're vague, I'd like to know what you're missing. > >> > >>>> What kind of info are you looking for? > >>> > >>> I currently have this configuration: > >>> > >>> # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > >>> Pass# > >>> /dev/da1s1b none swap sw 0 > 0 > >>> /dev/da0s1a / ufs rw 1 > 1 > >>> /dev/da1s2e /home ufs rw 2 > 2 > >>> /dev/da0s3e /tmp ufs rw 2 > 2 > >>> /dev/da0s4e /usr ufs rw 2 > 2 > >>> /dev/da0s2e /var ufs rw 2 > 2 > >>> > >>> > >>> I want to mirror /usr and / and /var > >>> > >>> I need to find info regarding this mirror > >> > >> Your question suggests that you haven't read the documentation. Read > >> it again and tell me what you don't understand. > > > > I finally found something on the net that was usefull regarding setup of > > vinum: > > > > http://www.freebsdzine.org/199905/features/vinum.html > > Interesting. I didn't know about this. > > There were a couple of factual problems with this article. In > particular, it mentions using /dev/wd0s1e and /dev/wd1s1f for the > drives; this didn't work in conjunction with the 'start' command at > the time, though it does now for 3.3-RELEASE. > > I don't recommend to have the device names end in a-h; instead, I > recommend to use the -v option for newfs. It's conceivable that I > once wrote something like that as a recommendation before newfs got > the -v option, but if it's still there, I'd like a pointer. > > > this is a little more reader friendly....I now have the basics down > > and can refer to the lemis website for specifics. > > The real problem with this article is that it is incomplete. It > doesn't tell you how to build a mirror. Jake, are you planning to > write more? > > > One last questions: Will I have to build the 2 slices and then the volume > > first and then copy over /usr ? Or can it mirror on the fly without me > > having to trash the current slice ? > > RTFM. You can't work with this stuff until you understand it. You > can completely trash your system otherwise. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message