From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 29 22:38:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09863 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:38:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09847 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:38:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA07532; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:07:43 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA36219; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:07:46 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981230170746.O32696@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:07:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Ken McKittrick , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do you actually use vinum? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Ken McKittrick on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 01:31:17AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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