Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:07:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ken McKittrick <klmac@twcny.rr.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do you actually use vinum? Message-ID: <19981230170746.O32696@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <v04020a00b2af75eda2e3@[192.168.0.2]>; from Ken McKittrick on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 01:31:17AM -0500 References: <v04020a00b2af75eda2e3@[192.168.0.2]>
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On Wednesday, 30 December 1998 at 1:31:17 -0500, Ken McKittrick wrote: > Hello > > How do you mount a volume created with vinum? I have rtfm'd the man pages > several times and am at a loss. > > 1. modload /lkm/vinum_mod.o > 2. vinum create /etc/rc.vinum > what's next to actualy mount the volume as /www? 3. newfs -v /dev/vinum/rbigvol 4. mount /dev/vinum/bigvol /www > Here are the details > > This is a 3.0-19981225-SNAP system with 2 IDE drives /dev/wd0 and > /dev/wd2. These are 2 Maxtor 8.4 gig EIDE drives. > > /etc/rc.vinum > > # drives > drive drive1 device /dev/wd0c > drive drive2 device /dev/wd2c > # volumes > volume bigvol > plex org striped 512b > sd length 8000m drive drive1 > sd length 8000m drive drive2 > > running vinum create /etc/rc.vinum gives me this: > > Configuration summary > > Drives: 2 (4 configured) > Volumes: 1 (4 configured) > Plexes: 1 (8 configured) > Subdisks: 2 (16 configured) > > D drive1 State: up Device /dev/wd0c > D drive2 State: up Device /dev/wd2c > > V bigvol State: up Plexes: 1 Size: 15 GB > > P bigvol.p0 S State: up Subdisks: 2 Size: 15 GB > > S bigvol.p0.s0 State: up PO: 0 B Size: 8000 MB > S bigvol.p0.s1 State: up PO: 8000 MB Size: 8000 MB What are you using for your system disk? Vinum doesn't care if you use /dev/wd0c and /dev/wd2c for its drives, but if your file systems are also on this area, you're going to crash most horribly when you start. In general, it's not a good idea to use the c partition for vinum. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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