From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 13:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hobbes.ssbaptist.net (linux.ssbaptist.net [216.17.141.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D4737BB15 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 13:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad@ssbaptist.net) Received: from localhost (brad@localhost) by hobbes.ssbaptist.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA29395 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 07:55:00 -0600 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 07:54:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Brad Waite X-Sender: brad@hobbes To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem newfsing vinum volume In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arrrrggggggg! I hit ^X too soon. I meant to add that I'm running 4.0-STABLE. On Tue, 23 May 2000, Brad Waite wrote: > Okay, I finally got my drives installed and partitioned as follows: > > ad0: > a: 7473152 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 465*) > b: 524288 7473152 swap # (Cyl. 465*- 497*) > c: 80035767 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4981*) > e: 72038327 7997440 vinum # (Cyl. 497*- 4981*) > > ad1: > c: 80041248 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > e: 80041248 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > > ad2: > c: 80041248 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > e: 80041248 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 635247) > > 4 gigs of ad0 are used for FBSD and swap. The rest of ad0 and all of ad1 & ad2 > are intended for vinum. Since, as I understand it, vinum requires all the > subdisks to be the same size, I split the drives into 3908MB subdisks, 10 sd's > on ad1 & ad2, and 9 on ad0 for a total of 29 subdisks. > > Here's my vinum cfg file: > drive a device /dev/ad0s1e > drive b device /dev/ad1s1e > drive c device /dev/ad2s1e > volume whopper > plex org raid5 512k > sd length 3908m drive a > sd length 3908m drive b > sd length 3908m drive c > [ all 3 lines repeated 8 times ] > sd length 3908m drive b > sd length 3908m drive c > > Now I try to do a newfs: > > # newfs -v /dev/vinum/whopper > newfs: /dev/vinum/whopper: Input/output error > # vinum l whopper > V whopper State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 106 GB > > > Why can't I newfs the volume? > > -Brad > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message