From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 26 19:45:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (asbestos.linuxcare.com.au [203.17.0.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B9037B424 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:45:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA07938; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:45:10 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:45:10 +1100 From: Greg Lehey To: Alistair M Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: raid1 on vinum Message-ID: <20000927134510.D7583@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tlli@hotmail.com on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:23:39PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 27 September 2000 at 12:23:39 -0500, Alistair M wrote: >> On Wednesday, 27 September 2000 at 11:19:49 -0500, Alistair M wrote: >>> From: Greg Lehey >>>> 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. > > Hi again, > > this is what my partitions look like: > > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 37748736 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 2349*) > b: 2283960 37748736 swap # (Cyl. 2349*- 2491*) > c: 40032696 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2491*) > > > /dev/ad3 > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 40032696 0 vinum # (Cyl. 0 - 2491*) > c: 40032696 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2491*) Fine. > This is my vinum.cfg: Please read http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html: What information to supply If you need to contact me because of problems with Vinum, please send me a mail message with the following information: ... Supply the output of the vinum list command. If you can't start Vinum, supply the on-disk configuration, as described below. If you can't start Vinum, then (and only then) send a copy of the configuration file. What not to supply Please don't supply the following information unless I ask for it: ... Your Vinum configuration file, unless your problem is that you can't start Vinum at all. > Here is some output from /var/log/messages after doing a vinum create: > (snip: looks OK) > > Everything seems fine so far. I can't tell yet. > When I do a vinum start -w, I get an error saying it can't find any > vinum drives. I don't see that in the output. > With the -w switch it is supposed to wait for the operation to > complete. It doesn't so I am assuming that it isn't copying the data > over from ad2 to ad3. I don't know what you're doing, but I'm pretty sure you're doing it wrong. > My problem is I don't know where to go from here. How do I get the > data from ad2 to ad3 once I have configured vinum (or have > I?!?!). If I reboot my machine at this stage, I just get a whole lot > of garbage on the screen and it justs hangs. Your problem is that you're not supplying the information I ask for. Please do so. Until you do, I do not intend to reply. > At that stage I have been reinstalling FreeBSD4.1. That is almost always the wrong thing to do. 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