From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 15:20: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 668B037B400 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:19:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 584097831E; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:49:53 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:49:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Tillman Hodgson Cc: Jason Borkowsky , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using VINUM to do RAID-1 disk mirroring Message-ID: <20020312094953.T36158@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020311105807.B7625@hodgsonhouse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020311105807.B7625@hodgsonhouse.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ 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 List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 11 March 2002 at 10:58:08 -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:37:41AM -0500, Jason Borkowsky wrote: >> I have two FreeBSD machines, both containing a pair of identical hard >> drives. I am looking to set up vinum to mirror the hard drives, and am not >> having any success. I have searched the FreeBSD archives, the vinum website, >> and other websites as well. >> >> Here is what I've found so far: >> >> Each drive needs to have the file system type changed from FreeBSD to vinum. >> I have done this no problem. (A side question I have about this is will this >> affect me if I reboot the machine or am an single user mode? What effects >> does changing the file system type have?) >> >> So now I have two drives, /dev/ad0s1 and /dev/ad2s1 (IDE devices). FreeBSD >> calls partition "c:" the complete drive, so on one drive (the drive I want >> mirrored), I have all my file partitions. On the drive I want to mirror to, >> I only have one partition, c:, which is the whole drive. Before I mirror, do >> I need to set up identical partitions? According to the man pages, it seems >> I don't have to. >> >> Now, in the man pages, under "Simplified Configuration", it states that to >> mirror a drive, all I need to do is: >> >> vinum -> mirror -v /dev/ad0s1c /dev/ad2s1c > > Try: > http://www.matts.org/vinum.shtml > > Keep in mind tha with vinum the mirror command doesn't specify Unix > devices (i.e. /dev/ad0s1c), it specifies vinum *drives*. No, it specifies partitions. /dev/ad0s1g would be a good choice. 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 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