From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 7 20:31:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 738E514E37 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:31:40 -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 OAA27184; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:39:03 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA14598; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:38:32 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990308143832.N490@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:38:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Ludwig Pummer , tim@scratch.demon.co.uk Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum again References: <199903072143.VAA00531@franklin.matlink> <4.1.19990307143449.00a76be0@mail-r> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990307143449.00a76be0@mail-r>; from Ludwig Pummer on Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 02:42:50PM -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-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 7 March 1999 at 14:42:50 -0800, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > At 01:41 PM 3/7/99 , tim@scratch.demon.co.uk wrote: >> its the newfs bit that was giving me a headache, mounted ok but on >> reboot put me single user as could not mount vinum drive > > It should have mounted your vinum volume automatically if you put your > vinum drive/slice in your rc.conf. Does your rc.conf have a vinum_drives > option somewhere? > What was the error message? I think it's pretty evident that he hasn't set up the config files. >> I had to vinum create configfile and then mount it manually. > > What do you mean, exactly? Could you give details of your configfile? What > did you do to mount it? Specifically, what you *should* do is: 1. Close to the beginning of your /etc/rc: vinum start Yes, this isn't quite kosher. I need to commit this to the latest versions and -STABLE, but it won't help you if you're running a CD version. This also assumes that you're using a relatively new version of FreeBSD. You should try this out by issuing this command in single-user mode. If it complains about syntax, the version is too old. If it complains about not finding any vinum drives, something else is wrong, and I want to know about it. 2. In your /etc/fstab: /dev/vinum/S /S ufs rw 2 2 (this is an example from my system; your names will differ) > >> This could be a problem with the name or location of my config file is >> there a certain name or place for these ? > > I'm not sure what you're referring to. The vinum config file is only needed > once, when you do the 'create' command. After that, you just do 'vinum > /dev/somedrive' where somedrive is a drive on which you have vinum (like > /dev/wd1 or /dev/wd0s1h). > >> Do you use raid or raid-5, if so does it affect performance much ? The freely available version of Vinum doesn't include RAID-5. RAID-5 performance is similar to striped plexes for reading, and about one-quarter the speed for writing. 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-chat" in the body of the message