Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 13:44:32 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Vinum on an a running system Message-ID: <20010902134432.B68136@ns2.wananchi.com>
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--cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi listers, I am calling upon the whole FreeBSD community to come to my help <LOL>. I have a production system which I'd like to run vinum on but I don't seem to be able to find information on setting up vinum on an already running system. My aim is just to mirror the disks though someone can suggest something better. This is a systems I inherited from someone so even the initial layout of the slices is not of my own making. The system has 2 disks at the moment and there is a high possibility of getting a third disk so I may be able to do better than just mirroring. Currently this is the layout: wash:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 4.7G 709M 3.7G 16% / /dev/da1s1f 4.7G 2.0K 4.4G 0% /backup /dev/da0s1f 6.9G 1.0G 5.3G 16% /home /dev/da0s1e 4.7G 1.6G 2.8G 36% /usr /dev/da1s1e 11G 7.2G 3.3G 68% /var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc It's obvious that someone was either extravagant with disk space or was _not_ sure what to do here ;-) - giving 4.7GB to /. I can do better to reorganize the layout, but that might not be a possibility either. I welcome suggestions. These are two disks of 16GB each and there is another of 16GB that I can get. My idea here is that maybe I can just setup RAID-5, hussle the boss to buy me one more spare disk (for replacement during a failure) and then sit back. Of course from the look of things I'd need the heart of a Lion to start doing this task. As they say, 'where there is a will, there is a way' - I am willing but looking for a way.=20 DISCLAIMER: This is going to be my FIRST attempt at something RAID-ish on FreeBSD. I've done mirroring on Winblows and it was fairly trivial but that was Winblows. This one is different because 1. It is our main server for POP/SMTP and a few other things.=20 2. Noone will grant me the luxury of downtime exceeding 6 hours to the most. 3. Failure of this box means a jobless me ;-) Pardon me for giving stupid conditions while what I am asking for is help. I'm turning to the list hoping that someone has been in my situation before.=20 I could use the list archives and the vinum home page if I had a whole new system to setup, but with this one, while I see vinum as the better alternative, is a running box. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. Out of my mind... be back in 5 minutes.=20 (contributed by Frank v Waveren)=20 --cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7kg2Qn7LIsuxjem8RAo+nAKC2GI02w8IYCeDx2CR945//l0uHfwCdGeQu Ev9ZvERf9s1+CTxvHYvT2ZI= =KP65 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cvVnyQ+4j833TQvp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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