From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 11:31:44 2004 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 B985816A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.wirewalk.com (dsl092-100-221.nyc2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.100.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B2943D1F for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:31:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from synrat@wirewalk.com) Received: by mail.wirewalk.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id D713ECDC3A; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:47:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:47:30 -0400 (EDT) From: synrat X-X-Sender: synrat@mail.wirewalk.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20040422224514.GA13249@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20040423144713.J85618@mail.wirewalk.com> References: <20040422110437.U73285@mail.wirewalk.com> <20040422224514.GA13249@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: vinum requirements 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, 23 Apr 2004 18:31:44 -0000 thanx Greg. like your book. hope there will be another edition. Does all this mean that if I don't have ~133kb available for Vinum in the beginning of the disk before my first ( root ) partition, I can't use Vinum on that disk ? or would it write half of the configuration in that first 60kb and the rest in whatever other freespace I have ? I admit this sounds like a joke :). thanx again. On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 22 April 2004 at 11:32:22 -0400, synrat wrote: > > > > does vinum configuration need to be located > > in the beginning of the drive after bootstrap or > > is it possible to store at the end of the drive ? > > Currently it must be at the beginning of a drive. > > > the reason I ask is I only have 60kb available in the beginining and > > the first partition is /. I should be able to shrink swap, which is > > at the end of the drive, but I'm not sure I understand how vinum > > stores it's configuration. Does there need to be a separate > > partition for vinum that has at least enough space for > > configuration, which doesn't overlap with anything else ? > > No, it's part of the drive. In Vinum terminology, a "drive" is a disk > partition, the same one on which the subdisks are stored. > > > Is the rest of vinum partition supposed to overlap with everything > > that I want to configure as a plex ( I'm talking about mirroring > > exisiting partitions ) Or should there be 2 different vinum > > partitions, one for configuration and another one for plexes ? > > I'd suggest you take a look at the documentation at > http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf. It should clarify a number of > things. > > And yes, in retrospect it was a bad idea to put the configuration at > the front of the drive. > > 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 > Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. > Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. >