From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Oct 8 21:39:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.whitebarn.com (Spin.whitebarn.com [216.0.13.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7709037B401; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from BGPBook.Com (Relent.Bob.whitebarn.com [216.0.13.50]) by smtp.whitebarn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA34553; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 23:39:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from Bob@BGPBook.Com) Message-ID: <3BC27F89.4090706@BGPBook.Com> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:39:37 -0500 From: Bob Van Valzah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Hardware@FreeBSD.Org, FreeBSD-SCSI@FreeBSD.Org, FreeBSD-Install@FreeBSD.Org, FreeBSD-FS@FreeBSD.Org, FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.Org, FreeBSD-Config@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Vinum Bootstrapping Article Reviewers Wanted Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm working on an article that describes how to get started using Vinum (software RAID). After a gentle introduction, it takes the reader through the process starting with /stand/sysinstall and ending with a sever with mirrored volumes. It also covers several hardware failure scenarios and the recovery techniques needed to get a server back to normal. I'd like to make sure that the step-by-step procedures that it contains are correct for a wide audience. Folks experienced with Vinum could help by reviewing the article and commenting on subtleties I've missed. Vinum newbies could by providing a perspective that I lack. I'd particularly like to find reviewers who tried to get Vinum going in the past but gave up. You'll need to have access to a CPU on which you can do fresh FreeBSD installs. Anything better than a 486 with 8 MB of RAM should be ok as long as you can get to installation media. You'll need two or more disk drives of at least 500 MB or so. IDE or SCSI, mix & match are ok. The article is about 30 pages, so you'll need time to read it and try the procedures. I'd budget at least 2-3 hours, more if you'll have to scrape the hardware together. Comments returned to me in the next few days might make it into a version of the article that I hope will appear in the next print edition of the handbook. So if you have the necessary time, hardware, and inclination, please drop me a line and I'll get you a draft! Thanks, Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message