From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 15 14:31: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC99154F9 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:30:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA11476; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:00:03 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA18598; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:00:02 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990316090002.H429@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:00:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Darryl Okahata Cc: Brad Knowles , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum questions? References: <19990313114322.S429@lemis.com> <199903152107.NAA11227@mina.sr.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903152107.NAA11227@mina.sr.hp.com>; from Darryl Okahata on Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:07:34PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 15 March 1999 at 13:07:34 -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 12 March 1999 at 15:19:41 -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote: >> >>> Once the plex has been created, you need to use names like >>> "/dev/da1" instead of "/dev/da1c" (the man page is wrong). Just drop >>> the partition letter and use the name of the disk slice. >> >> This is a little confusing, even to me. I assume that you're talking >> about the 'read' command, which requires slice names and not partition >> names. But the bug that did sneak into the man page has been fixed >> again (though it might be on 3.1-RELEASE), and in later versions you >> should use 'start' without any parameters rather than 'read', which >> was a real pain. > > Brad seems to have been bitten by the same "gotcha" as me: we both > seem to have read "http://www.lemis.com/vinum.4.txt" or the equivalent. > This page talks about the incorrect use of: > > vinum_slices="/dev/da1h /dev/da2h /dev/da3h /dev/da4h /dev/da5h" > > (The 3-1.RELEASE man page is correct, but I assumed that your page was > more up-to-date. ;-) Oh. Yes, you're right. Well, you were :-) I've fixed it now. Thanks for pointing that out. This business with 'read' was suboptimal from the beginning, but I think it was correct to change it the way I did. The intention is to use 'read' for maintenance or recovery when you have a number of disks from online servers inserted into a spare machine, and you only want to start some of them. > You are, of course, correct -- I was referring to the read > command (I shouldn't, perhaps, be using compatibility slices -- I'm > using "dangerously dedicated" disks and have gotten into the bad habit > of using compatibility slices for these). That in itself shouldn't be a problem. 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