Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:00:09 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson <lewiz@fajita.org> To: Evan Sayer <esayer1@san.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vinum Message-ID: <20040320220009.GC87971@lewiz.org> In-Reply-To: <E372ADA1-7AB4-11D8-A71E-000A95CCF8C4@san.rr.com> References: <E372ADA1-7AB4-11D8-A71E-000A95CCF8C4@san.rr.com>
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--E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I might be lying to you with my answers. I'm hoping Greg Lehey or some other Vinum hacker will point anything I get wrong out though :) On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:23:53PM -0800, Evan Sayer wrote: > I have a question about how vinum effects access to file systems. When= =20 > i have a vinum volume on a drive which contains the file system /usr,=20 > which is being mirrored to another volume on another drive, are the=20 > contents of /usr encompassed in the volume (like a partition) or is=20 /usr is generally partition e on the slice (at least it is on my machine). This means you can set up two Vinum drives using, for example, ad0s1e. That way you will be able to mount either disk. However, that's not really useful. You really want to be mounting /dev/vinum/usr (if that's what you called your volume). This way Vinum will handle the synchronization for you. > If i do this will i be able to access all the files on the first hard > drive as though it was just a regular partition. Yes. Same for the second disk. You really want to mount /dev/vinum/usr as I mentioned above. > Do i need subdisks and plexes just to mirror the file systems' data? Yes. -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAXL7pItq0KFQv7T8RAv/vAKDWBdEilik2lecN00faT4eS7h7hTQCffSDe 6gevyTJnjGo3Un6wCgqiU2U= =5sLZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1--
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