From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 26 17:35: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4241D150E6 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 17:34:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA42234; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 12:04:45 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 12:04:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Gary Palmer Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ``how to'' for Vinum and mirroring after the volume was created? Message-ID: <19991227120444.S1316@freebie.lemis.com> References: <41316.946253007@noop.colo.erols.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <41316.946253007@noop.colo.erols.net> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 26 December 1999 at 19:03:27 -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > I've got a question or two about vinum, and how to work it. > > I'm trying to upgrade the storage on my home computer, and while I was > transitioning my old disks out, I only managed to get one of the new > ones online to copy data onto it. Did you forget the 'setupstate' keyword? > Now I want to mirror that volume onto a 2nd plex. Attaching the > plex to the volume and doing a vinum start seemed to start a > mirroring process, but it seemed to be reading from both plexes in > round robin to do the mirror! How do you determine that? > This obviously wasn't what I had hoped for. It certainly doesn't make sense? > The second question concerns the flag fields. Is there any way to > change flags on the fly? e.g. change the volume from being round > robin to prefer plex? That's one thing I haven't done yet. It's trivial, but I haven't thought of a syntax for the command. Suggestions? > Lastly, what does vinum mean? Wine (in Latin). If you search, you may find an amusing pun on a Latin saying. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message