Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:48:57 +1100 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alistair M <tlli@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: raid1 on vinum Message-ID: <20000927124857.B7583@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F179acUtI9dm5U00003b90@hotmail.com>; from tlli@hotmail.com on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:19:49AM -0500 References: <LAW2-F179acUtI9dm5U00003b90@hotmail.com>
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On Wednesday, 27 September 2000 at 11:19:49 -0500, Alistair M wrote: > From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> >> On Monday, 25 September 2000 at 15:33:46 -0500, Alistair M wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> I am trying to mirror the whole OS onto a second disk I have on my >>> machine. The two disks are exactly the same. I am currently >>> running with FreeBSD 4.1. >>> ... >>> I am not sure where to go from here. >> >> Start again with the parameters I show above. > > I did as you said, and created the volumes with "setupstate". > I was unable to move /dev/ad2 and /dev/ad3 to /dev/ad1 and /dev/ad2 I don't understand what you mean here. > I placed everything in /dev/ad2a and want to mirror to /dev/ad3a. > > All the volumes were set up properly, and plexes were in the 'up' state > after doing a: vinum create -f /etc/vinum.cfg. > > I edited /etc/rc.conf and added start_vinum="YES". > > I then executed: > vinum start > and I got some error saying: > /kernel: vinum: no drives found That sounds reasonable if Vinum is already running. 'vinum start' just goes looking for new drives. > ** mp drives found: No such file or directory > /kernel: vinum: no drives found > > I executed it again and I got this message: > /kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/ad3s1a > /kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/ad2s1a > > What is going on? I don't know. You should have got the same message again. You also haven't described anything that is obviously a problem. But you haven't really given me enough information to tell. Take a look at vinum(4) or http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html and give me the information I ask for there. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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-questions" in the body of the message
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