From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 02:56:22 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C6A37B401 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 02:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de (mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237C243F93 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 02:56:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100])h459uGE13506; Mon, 5 May 2003 11:56:16 +0200 (MEST) Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 11:56:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt To: James Taylor In-Reply-To: <009e01c31053$b8e23bb0$4500a8c0@theplague> Message-ID: <20030505115350.I53365@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <009e01c31053$b8e23bb0$4500a8c0@theplague> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum under Sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 09:56:22 -0000 On Thu, 1 May 2003, James Taylor wrote: JT>I'm trying to get vinum setup to create a raid5 array, but am running JT>into some snags due to the lack of disklabel support. From what I JT>understand, to do any partition management you need to run sysinstall to JT>create your partitions. The only options here after creating partitions JT>however is to set it up as either ufs or swap. How would you go about JT>setting the partition type to vinum without being able to run disklabel JT>-e? I did a newfs on my partitions for vinum and then just called vinum to build the array. I don't know why that worked, but it did. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org