From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 26 21:22: 5 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 3C82337B423 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA08188; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:20:17 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:20:17 +1100 From: Greg Lehey To: Alistair M Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: raid1 on vinum Message-ID: <20000927142017.F7583@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 12:56:59PM -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 12:56:59 -0500, Alistair M wrote: >> On Wednesday, 27 September 2000 at 12:23:39 -0500, Alistair M wrote: >>> 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. > > 2 drives: No drive information? Is that really like that, or did something go wrong on the copy? > 4 volumes: > V root State: up Plexes: 2 Size: 6149 MB > V root_home State: up Plexes: 2 Size: 3077 MB > V var State: up Plexes: 2 Size: 3077 MB > V usr State: up Plexes: 2 Size: 6149 MB > > 8 plexes: > P root.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 6140 MB > P root.p1 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 6149 MB > P root_home.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 3068 MB > P root_home.p1 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 3077 MB > P var.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 3068 MB > P var.p1 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 3077 MB > P usr.p0 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 6140 MB > P usr.p1 C State: up Subdisks: 1 Size: 6149 MB > > 8 subdisks: > S root.p0.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 6140 MB > S root.p1.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 6149 MB > S root_home.p0.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 3068 MB > S root_home.p1.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 3077 MB > S var.p0.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 3068 MB > S var.p1.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 3077 MB > S usr.p0.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 6140 MB > S usr.p1.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 6149 MB This looks fine. > You have the extract from /var/log/messages, Not for the commands you said you issued: >>> 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. >> > and you know that my problem is that I don't know how to get vinum > to copy the data from /dev/ad2 to /dev/ad3. You can't. Vinum uses drives only for allocating subdisks, nothing else. > I can't seem to find the vinum_history file in /var/tmp/ Oops, sorry, it's in /var/run/vinum_history now. I've updated the documentation. OK, now I don't understand what your problem is. The output above shows that all is OK. Can you newfs the volumes? Mount them? If not, what happens? 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