From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 26 20:41:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F190A16A4BF for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF41D43FDD for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 65FEA526D0; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:11:14 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:11:14 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Thomas Smith Message-ID: <20030827034114.GS39024@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3F4C012F.1010107@openadventures.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="O3bhLwMadv7h6/J9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F4C012F.1010107@openadventures.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard drive devices (WAS Need Vinum help) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 03:41:19 -0000 --O3bhLwMadv7h6/J9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 26 August 2003 at 17:54:07 -0700, Thomas Smith wrote: > Thanks to those of you who replied to my previous question. However, I > don't think the problem was Vinum entirely. > > - Is there a way to tell whether a device is aleady configured? That is, > if I'm not sure ad1s1e is configured can I test it to see. vinum ld > - Are / slices mirror-able? There seems to be some conflicting > documentation on this. It's possible. How you do it depends on your version of FreeBSD. > The handbook says yes but www.vinumvm.org, in > some areas, says no--as does freebsddiary.org and daemonnews.org. In other areas, notably http://www.vinumvm.org/cfbsd/vinum.pdf, it says yes. Point me to the others and I'll update them. > - I'm coming from a Redhat background where RAID arrays can be > configured during installation. I understand that this isn't the > case with FreeBSD due to sysinstall limitation. This begs the > question: What is the preferred order of events to setup Vinum? That's in the link above. > I was never able to get both "up" at the same time--one always showed > "Referenced". When I looked in /dev/vinum/drives only a1 would be listed > but not a2. You don't say what version of FreeBSD you were using, but I recently fixed a bug which looks like it could be related to this. Try using /dev/ad0s1a and /dev/ad1s1e and see if you do any better. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --O3bhLwMadv7h6/J9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/TChaIubykFB6QiMRAuOPAKCPnh16bEZ/gWTJajtUdeJTQRFLSgCgpqsr 8Z22uCpdESIbzFXAxRwi8YY= =xLN9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --O3bhLwMadv7h6/J9--